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Re: [RFC] gitweb wishlist and TODO list

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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Jun 20, 2006, 18:40 UTC
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Dear diary, on Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 08:34:38PM CEST, I got a letter where Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> said that...

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> Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > Nope, you get the stuff in $PATH_INFO. And having at least just the
> > project name in the path part would be quite nice, it's my common gripe
> > with cvsweb as I frequently get to mangle with the query part manually
> > (can be much faster than clicking around) and I have to carefully evade
> > the project name part, which is something I would really expect to be in
> > the "static" part of the URL.
> 
> But without web server support I think you would need one copy/symbolic link
> per repository served.

Nope. As I said, the webserver stops in the path at the point it hits the CGI and the rest is in $PATH_INFO.

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> > When we are talking about URLs, it would be quite nice if the query
> > parameter names would be actually meaningful instead of some cryptic
> > 'h', 'pg' and whatnot.
> 
> I guess that is because hash values are somewhat long (40 characters wide),
> so one letter parameter names were chosen to shorten URL.

I might argue that since the hash values are so long, few extra bytes for having the names make some sense aren't going to hurt.

Thanks for the dictionary, though. :)
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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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Message 6 of 35 in “[RFC] gitweb wishlist and TODO list”
  1. Jakub NarebskiJun 20, 2006
  2. Carl WorthJun 20, 2006
  3. Jakub NarebskiJun 20, 2006
  4. Petr BaudisJun 20, 2006
  5. Jakub NarebskiJun 20, 2006
  6. Petr BaudisJun 20, 2006
  7. Jakub NarebskiJun 21, 2006
  8. Martin LanghoffJun 20, 2006
  9. Jakub NarebskiJun 20, 2006
  10. Martin LanghoffJun 20, 2006
  11. Paul MackerrasJul 1, 2006
  12. Dennis StosbergJun 21, 2006
  13. 1/3 gitweb: Declare global variables with "our"Dennis Stosberg, Jun 21, 2006
  14. 2/3 Add a parameter to specify the repository pathDennis Stosberg, Jun 21, 2006
  15. 3/3 gitweb: Use --git-dir parameter instead of setting $ENV{'GIT_DIR'}Dennis Stosberg, Jun 21, 2006
  16. Timo HirvonenJun 21, 2006
  17. Jakub NarebskiJun 21, 2006
  18. Jakub NarebskiJun 21, 2006
  19. Dennis StosbergJun 22, 2006
  20. Ryan AndersonJun 22, 2006
  21. Ryan AndersonJun 21, 2006
  22. Jakub NarebskiJun 21, 2006
  23. Junio C HamanoJun 20, 2006
  24. Petr BaudisJun 20, 2006
  25. Jakub NarebskiJun 20, 2006
  26. Petr BaudisJun 20, 2006
  27. Thomas GlanzmannJun 20, 2006
  28. Josef WeidendorferJun 21, 2006
  29. Jakub NarebskiJun 21, 2006
  30. Josef WeidendorferJun 21, 2006
  31. Jakub NarebskiJun 21, 2006
  32. Jakub NarebskiJun 22, 2006
  33. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2006
  34. Jakub NarebskiJun 21, 2006
  35. Josef WeidendorferJun 21, 2006

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