Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Fix showing of path in tree view

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Sep 21, 2006, 11:25 UTC
Message-ID: <20060921112536.GV8259@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <eetjp0$22n$1@sea.gmane.org>

Dear diary, on Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:50:46AM CEST, I got a letter where Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> said that...

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> Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > 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...
> 
> >> 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. :-)
> 
> "[$project] /", or "~ /" instead of "[root] /".

Yes, the former is what repo.or.cz uses now and in a patch I've sent privately to Junio (since my StGIT configuration at repo.or.cz is messed up and I had no time to fix it).

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