Re: suggestions for gitweb

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 14, 2007, 00:28 UTC
Message-ID: <7vveewp7tz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200705131318.39723.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

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> Adding some gitweb-help.html page, linked somewhere from within gitweb
> pages (I think it shouldn't be embedded in gitweb, like help for search
> options is), certainly is possible. And perhaps we should do that, now
> that gitweb is more widely deployed, and used by "accidental" users
> (developers) with no knowledge of git, and perhaps even without
> knowledge of SCM [terms].

Yeah, that is definitely an improvement.

> It should be fairly easy to add "diff to prev" link, but is it really
> needed? It would be yet another link. Diff to previous version of blob
> is contained in "commitdiff" and is easy to find and go to... well,
> unless you are used to make large commits...

It would not be "yet another". It feels kind of odd to get the whole commitdiff from that page to begin with, when the user already expressed that his attention is focused on that particular path --- that is why he is in the History page to begin with.