Re: [RFC] gitweb wishlist and TODO list

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 20, 2006, 18:34 UTC
Message-ID: <e79f3p$jcc$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060620175505.GR2609@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis wrote:

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> Dear diary, on Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 07:46:11PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> said that...
>> Add to that the fact that above needs some support from web server
>> (e.g. Apache's mod_rewrite) and web server configuration, while gitweb tries
>> to be server agnostic...
> 
> Nope, you get the stuff in $PATH_INFO. And having at least just the
> project name in the path part would be quite nice, it's my common gripe
> with cvsweb as I frequently get to mangle with the query part manually
> (can be much faster than clicking around) and I have to carefully evade
> the project name part, which is something I would really expect to be in
> the "static" part of the URL.

But without web server support I think you would need one copy/symbolic link per repository served.

> When we are talking about URLs, it would be quite nice if the query
> parameter names would be actually meaningful instead of some cryptic
> 'h', 'pg' and whatnot.

I guess that is because hash values are somewhat long (40 characters wide), so one letter parameter names were chosen to shorten URL.

Dictionary:
 'a'  - action (e.g. summary, log, commitdiff, blob, tree)
 'o'  - order by (for sorting tables)
 'p'  - project (might include category/directory: cogito/cogito.git, 
        git/git.git, git/gitk.git)
 'f'  - filename (I plan to move it before hash-valued parameters, 
        perhaps except hb which usually is symbolic) 
 'pg' - page
 's'  - searchtext (shouldn't it be 'q', from querystring?)
 'h'  - hash
 'hp' - hash parent (not used yet I think)
 'hb' - hash base (i.e. head or tag; underused I think)

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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