Re: gitweb wishlist

From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: May 14, 2005, 02:43 UTC
Message-ID: <1116038598.9317.22.camel@dhcp-188.off.vrfy.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050511012626.GL26384@pasky.ji.cz>

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 03:26 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:

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>   I would be very happy if you could extend the gitweb scripts a little.
> Basically, what I need is to have ability to create a permanent link to
> a given file in the repository, which stays same across revisions (as
> long as the file stays with the given name, obviously).
> 
>   E.g. I would like to have something like
> 
> 	http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cogito%2Fcogito.git;n=contrib/ciabot.pl
> 
> for file contrib/ciabot.pl in the latest Cogito tree, and

http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cogito/cogito.git;a=blob;f=contrib/ciabot.pl

> 	http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cogito%2Fcogito.git;n=contrib
> 
> for the list of the contrib/ directory in the latest Cogito tree.

http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cogito/cogito.git;a=tree;f=contrib

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>   I think I would prefer the link from the repository index to go not to
> the log page, but some "summary" page, which would have some short
> information about the repository (owner, description, list of branches
> if gitweb supports that, list of tags, link to the latest tree and link
> to the log).

Sounds reasonable, I will try that with the next round.

Thanks, Kay