Re: First web interface and service API draft

From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Apr 22, 2005, 14:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20050422142342.GG30915@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1114166517.3233.4.camel@localhost>

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 12:41:56PM +0200, Christian Meder wrote:

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> /<project>/blob/<blob-sha1>
> /<project>/commit/<commit-sha1>

It is trivial to find an object when given a sha, but to know the object type you'd have to decompress it and check inside. Also the way git stores these things you can't have both a blob and a commit with the same sha anyways.

So why not use,
    /<project/<hexadecimal sha1 representation>
	will give you the raw object.

    /<project/<hexadecimal sha1 representation>.html (.xml/.txt)
	will give you a parsed version for user presentation

And since hexadecimal numbers only have [0-9a-f] as valid characters, you can still have additional directories that can be guaranteed unique as long as the first two characters are not a valid hexadecimal value. So things like /branch/linus, or /changelog/, /log/, /diff/. Yeah, you can't use /delta/ without looking at more than the first two characters, but that's where dictionaries can come in handy.

Jan