From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:19:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Fix showing of path in tree view
Message-ID: <eetova$k32$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060920231224.GN13132@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis wrote:

> This patch fixes two things - links to all path elements except the last
> one were broken since gitweb does not like the trailing slash in them, and
> the root tree was not reachable from the subdirectory view.

Wouldn't it be better to fix git_get_hash_by_path to have it strip trailing
slash? Gitweb don't like trailing slash in pathname (directory name)
because while

        git ls-tree $base -- dirname

shows dirname entry

        git ls-tree $base -- dirname/

shows directory _contents_.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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