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Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Make search type a popup menu

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 24, 2006, 07:33 UTC
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Petr Baudis wrote:
> This makes the multiple search types actually usable by the user;
> if you don't read the gitweb source, you don't even have an idea
> that you can write things like that there.

This is I think good change, although I'm not sure if I like changing using search operators to using additional CGI parameter.

Having help page for search is _certainly_ very good change. Perhaps we should put it out-of-line, not embedded? Just a thought...

This patch changes search box into something similar to Google "Advanced Search". Yet Google "Advanced Search" box generates search query using search operators. Search operators are just more powerfull. I know that gitweb doesn't use this power now (it uses only one operator, first if I remember correctly), but we can do this in the future (e.g. searching for both author and specified string in commit message, or searching for given author OR given committer). Well, we can always change it back...

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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