Re: [PATCH] gitweb: allow extra breadcrumbs to prefix the trail

From: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 4, 2013, 17:31 UTC
Message-ID: <CANQwDwffPANC-Kb-8sk=UH3EGkG=ON8-TiMRNNS5c5r+rKsW+Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1307041752030.26246@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>

On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:

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> Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In what situation do you need those extra breadcrumbs useful? What
>> necessity / itch to scratch is behind idea of this patch?
>
> For an example, see https://git.csx.cam.ac.uk/x/ucs/git/git.git
>
> I have three items in @extra_breadcrumbs which point to the University
> home page, my department home page, and my git server's home page; there
> are a number of gitolite accounts on the server each of which has a
> project listing which is where gitweb's home link points.

Of course those @external_breadcrumbs are really useful iff they are repeated consistently in at least similar form in all those external pages...

> (I expect to change the link texts to make it less confusing when you
> happen to be looking at my department's account on the git server...)

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Jakub Narebski