From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:56:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: tree view: eliminate redundant "blob"
Message-ID: <200610021256.35236.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4520BC84.5090800@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>>> Doesn't leading drwxr-xr-x mean anything?
>> 
>> Neither d in drwxr-xr-x, nor trailing / in the name are significant
>> enough indicators of directory vs file (tree vs blob) indicator,
>> especially that by default git-ls-tree output mixes trees with blobs.
>>  
> 
> I beg to differ. The trailing slash would indeed help, as peoples eyes 
> are generally focused on the mouse-pointer rather than some 5-10" to the 
> left of it. If we're worrying that windows folks use \ for 
> path-delimiter, I think they'll pick up the difference quick enough.

I agree that it would help, but it is not enough when tree (directory)
and blob (file) would have the same color and the same decoration.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland