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Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Show project's README.html if available

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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Oct 24, 2006, 19:50 UTC
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Dear diary, on Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 09:41:04PM CEST, I got a letter where Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> said that...

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> I re-read that email.  And I also saw what you have at hed.git.
> 
> If anything I think we should want to _minimize_ shown material
> before the "shortlog" in the "summary" page.
> 
> Why?
> 
> Well, in a production environment, people often view the "summary" page
> to see what has been going on with a project and they are well aware
> of what that project is for and/or what it does.  It is cumbersome to have
> to scroll down each and every time past he annoying "readme", just to see
> the first few commits.

Yes, I agree that this is valid concern. I've been thinking about showing readme in parallel with the summary box, do people think that would fix the issue?

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