From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:27:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/1] gitweb: Use fixed string for "next" link in commitdiff view
Message-ID: <20061024152718.GE20017@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <200610241359.57389.jnareb@gmail.com>

Dear diary, on Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:59:57PM CEST, I got a letter
where Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> said that...
> >>> Would it even be necessary to use any SHA-1 name in these cases,
> >>> I wonder.  Would it make the page less useful if we replace all
> >>> of the above _commit_ with a fixed string, say, "parent"?
> > 
> > I really disagree here - what's the point of not using SHA-1? The extra
> > string carries zero information in comparison with the previous state
> > and I just can't see how it *improves* stuff. If you're walking in a
> > maze and making marks on walls, it's still more useful if you have
> > corridors named by "A", "B", "C", "D" on junctions if you sometimes want
> > to walk back to the marked corridors.
> 
> That's why instead of resending the patch/amending the commit, I have
> put changing shortened SHA1 to constant name in new patch.

Huh, I don't quite understand. You threw away all the "A", "B", "C", "D"
and kept only the marks.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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