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Re: Two gitweb feature requests

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Apr 29, 2006, 05:02 UTC
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<20060429050231.GC25638@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:23:11AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> The downside is that you'd have two different web-pages for the same tree 
> depending on which commit it came from. Which is not a downside from a 
> user perspective, but it's a downside from a caching/server perspective, 
> since it means less reuse of pages (maybe gitweb already does that, 
> though).

The gitweb request for a tree already contains not only the tree hash, but also the commit hash and the filename path. It's possible (but more expensive than typical tree requests) to find '..' by munging the path and traversing the tree from the root.

-Peff
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Message 10 of 11 in “Two gitweb feature requests”
  1. David WoodhouseApr 27, 2006
  2. Matthias LederhoferApr 27, 2006
  3. David WoodhouseApr 27, 2006
  4. Ben CliffordApr 27, 2006
  5. David WoodhouseApr 29, 2006
  6. seanApr 28, 2006
  7. Jakub NarebskiApr 28, 2006
  8. Linus TorvaldsApr 28, 2006
  9. Jakub NarebskiApr 28, 2006
  10. Jeff KingApr 29, 2006
  11. Jakub NarebskiApr 29, 2006

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