Re: [PATCH] gitweb: tree view: eliminate redundant "blob"

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Oct 2, 2006, 07:15 UTC
Message-ID: <4520BC84.5090800@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <200610012127.37113.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> 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.

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