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From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: tree view: hash_base and hash are now context sensitive
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:51:10 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Luben Tuikov wrote:
> 
> > What this patch does is simply set "h" and/or "hb" to
> > the string "HEAD" instead of the string "<SHA1 of HEAD>" when
> > h/hb is not defined.
> 
> I guess there it is a good idea, but we should always think
> over if we want "constant" link, always showing the same thing,
> or a "variable" (or "news") link, showing current version.
> 
> Explicit sha1 hash as 'h'/'hb' gives persistent, cacheable link,
> while e.g. "HEAD" gives "variable" link.

Exactly what is wanted by people using git in a work environment.

   Luben
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