Re: [PATCH 2/1] gitweb: Use fixed string for "next" link in commitdiff view

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 07:17:28PM CEST, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> >> > Would it even be necessary to use any SHA-1 name in these cases,
> >> > I wonder.  Would it make the page less useful if we replace all
> >> > of the above _commit_ with a fixed string, say, "parent"?
> >
> > I really disagree here - what's the point of not using SHA-1? The extra
> > string carries zero information in comparison with the previous state
> > and I just can't see how it *improves* stuff. If you're walking in a
> > maze and making marks on walls, it's still more useful if you have
> > corridors named by "A", "B", "C", "D" on junctions if you sometimes want
> > to walk back to the marked corridors.
> 
> I think people would recognize A B C D as names but not 40- or
> 8- hexadecimal letters.

40-digit hex numbers is insane, I agree. But at least I personally tend
to recognize 8-digit hex numbers when dancing around them intensively
for a few minutes. Besides, it can be just "now I took the 8c5 way",
which is much easier to train your neurons too than "now I took the
fourth, uh, or was it the fifth parent? one, two, three, four, fifth...
hmm, what's in the statusbar?".

My point is that this does not improve the situation, and some people
(me) think it makes it worse, so what's the point of the change?

> I do not care much either way, actually, but I think it might
> make more sense to use abbreviated object names.  On the other
> hand it may be Ok to have full 40 letters depending on the
> layout (e.g. the set of merge parents are shown on a single line
> in which case it would not fit, etc.).

Yes, I'm all for abbreviated names, but I'm against just writing
"parent" everywhere.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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