[issue2311] hgweb should show age as time since last modification

[Ethan Tira-Thompson]

New submission from Ethan Tira-Thompson <ejtttje at gmail.com>:

Related to issue 2229, the date shown for files in manifest view should be 
that of the last modification, not the date of the current changeset.  
Displaying the same age/date for all files is not only not-useful, but also 
misleading as it implies all of the displayed files were modified in the 
same changeset.

Instead, the age/date should be be that of the preceding entry in the file's 
individual log.  This is something viewvc does for CVS which I miss in 
Mercurial: I can view a directory, and scan through the modification dates 
and most recent commit messages for each file.

Use case: Say I know an issue is related to modifications made to a 
directory of source code files.  I don't know exactly when the issue was 
introduced, or where, but I want to start the search by perusing the most 
recently modified files.  So via hg I go to the tip and then browse the 
directory, say with the gitweb style so there's a date field... but all 
files are the same date!  Which files have been modified?  Instead I have to 
dig through the log view, which might be flooded with changes from unrelated 
directories.

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messages: 13260
nosy: ejt
priority: bug
status: unread
title: hgweb should show age as time since last modification

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