Re: [PATCH/RFC] gitweb: Great subroutines renaming

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 9, 2006, 11:01 UTC
Message-ID: <ebcf9s$h32$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7ty41xb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> It is needed in gitweb to create pagination/paging navigation bar. 
>> Currently it is done by reading all the output into array, and 
>> checking length of this array.
> 
> If you want to show 10 and do ... when you have more than that,
> the standard technique is to ask for 11 ;-).

It's not a problem to do '...'/'next' link _after_ the body, but
the paging navigation bar is at the _top_ of page, before 
outputting the body. See e.g.
  http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=git/git.git;a=shortlog
there is "HEAD * prev * next" at the top, and "next" at the bottom
of the revision list.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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