From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:40:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Fix showing of path in tree view
Message-ID: <20060920234052.GO13132@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vpsdqdsh1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:32:42AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> > This patch fixes two things - links to all path elements except the last
> > one were broken since gitweb does not like the trailing slash in them, and
> > the root tree was not reachable from the subdirectory view.
> >
> > To compensate for the one more slash in the front, the trailing slash is
> > not there anymore. ;-) I don't care if it stays there though.
> 
> Hmph.  I see the breakage and behaviour-wise your patch is fine.
> 
> But I think the older one was visually nicer and more intuitive
> in one very small detail that I think matters.  Slashes between
> path components were not part of the anchor elements, so it was
> clear that there were two links in "gitweb / gitweb.perl" page
> title, not just one link.  Now it is not obvious that clicking
> different parts of the path string in "/stgit/commands/mail.py"
> would lead to different places.  And as you are aware, losing
> the leading "/" would be nicer as well ;-).

  Well, this was the best I could come up without introducing "[root] /"
or something in front of the path, which would be IMHO even uglier.
Alternative ideas welcomed. :-)

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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