Re: gitweb wishlist

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 25, 2005, 04:55 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505242153150.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vu0ksoxg4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>
> I was browsing www.kernel.org/git and noticed that it shows
> only files that exist at the tip.  How do I get history of a
> file that does not exist anymore at the tip?

The only sane interface I can think of is to expose the subdirectory history and then pick from that. Otherwise you'd have to actually type in the name, which is a bit against the notion of a graphical browsing interface.

		Linus

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