From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:01:40 GMT
Subject: Re: gitweb.perl suggestion
Message-ID: <201007082101.41286.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <19510.3108.337932.666012@winooski.ccs.neu.edu>

Eli Barzilay wrote:
> On Jul  8, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > 
> > So your proposed solution is good enough, but perhaps better would
> > be to leave 'action' unset if there is no parent info?  Then
> > dispatch would guess action, instead of doing it in less
> > sophisticated way in evaluate_path_info().
> 
> Ah, looking at the dispatch point, I see what you're talking about.
> But that sounds like a larger change to the code -- since it would
> probably lead to more default actions that get determined in dispatch
> instead of earlier.

I don't remember if it was the real reson why http://gitweb/project/<object>
defaults to 'shortlog' action, but <object> can be commit, but can be also
tag.  The 'shortlog' action makes sense for both... assuming that tag
points to a commit object, that is.

P.S. As usual, patches welcome...
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland