From: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:36:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: ref markers link to named shortlogs
Message-ID: <cb7bb73a0808271136k4b420a82kd5d058c4662bbb51@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200808261349.28771.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:58, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>> Ah, but the problem is that guessing the action based on the object
>> sometimes depends on the context: for some cases the 'commit' action
>> is the correct one for commits, in other cases shortlog is preferred.
>> This is why I introduced the %views hash in some of my patches.
>
> By the way, this is argument *for* selecting action when generating
> link, if it is possible without incurring unnecessary (if you don't
> follow the link) performance penalty.  For example in the case of
> ref markers links, you can link to 'log' in log view, 'shortlog'
> in 'shortlog' view, perhaps even 'history' in 'history' and 'tree'/'blob'
> views; or just 'shortlog' in all other views (for "commit subject"
> line heading).

So, I managed to get this feature into the latest version of the
refmark patch (v7). Hope it's really the final form 8-)

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta