From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: [RFC] gitweb wishlist and TODO list Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:40:20 +0200 Message-ID: <20060620184020.GS2609@pasky.or.cz> References: <87r71jspeo.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <20060620175505.GR2609@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 20 20:40:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fsl9A-0004Nm-MY for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:40:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750757AbWFTSkP (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:40:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750796AbWFTSkP (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:40:15 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:29140 "EHLO machine.or.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750757AbWFTSkO (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:40:14 -0400 Received: (qmail 3456 invoked by uid 2001); 20 Jun 2006 20:40:20 +0200 To: Jakub Narebski Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Dear diary, on Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 08:34:38PM CEST, I got a letter where Jakub Narebski 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. :) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.