Re: [RFC] gitweb wishlist and TODO list

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 08:34:38PM CEST, I got a letter
where Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> said that...
> Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Nope. As I said, the webserver stops in the path at the point it hits
the CGI and the rest is in $PATH_INFO.

> > 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.

I might argue that since the hash values are so long, few extra bytes
for having the names make some sense aren't going to hurt.

Thanks for the dictionary, though. :)

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