diff --git a/Annex/View.hs b/Annex/View.hs
index 725cce3cb6..04481a4fd9 100644
--- a/Annex/View.hs
+++ b/Annex/View.hs
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ applyView' mkviewedfile getfilemetadata view = do
 			topf <- inRepo (toTopFilePath f)
 			go uh topf sha (toTreeItemType mode) =<< lookupKey f
 		liftIO $ void clean
-		genViewBranch view
+	genViewBranch view
   where
 	genviewedfiles = viewedFiles view mkviewedfile -- enables memoization
 
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 97b43d9030..7234d4c452 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ git-annex (8.20201008) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     backends. Make sure to relay any remaining stderr from the process,
     and potentially avoid the process getting a SIGPIPE if it writes to
     stderr too late. 
+  * view: Fix a reversion in 8.20200522 that broke entering or changing views.
 
  -- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>  Thu, 08 Oct 2020 10:48:17 -0400
 
diff --git a/doc/bugs/view.mdwn b/doc/bugs/view.mdwn
index 4dcbf82d58..e1e44370cb 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/view.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/view.mdwn
@@ -65,3 +65,7 @@ git-annex: view: 1 failed
 
 ### Have you had any luck using git-annex before? (Sometimes we get tired of reading bug reports all day and a lil' positive end note does wonders)
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+
+> Thank you for reporting, I've fixed this reversion and am also going to
+> add something like that to the test suite, which lacked any testing of
+> views. [[done]] --[[Joey]]