From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: "Giuseppe Bilotta" <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gitweb and remote branches
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:53:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708310153.29625.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cb7bb73a0708301609s330f8d6fna3755bff346452ab@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 31 August 2007, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> On 8/30/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> That reminds me that gitweb has no support for detached HEAD as of yet,
>>> although I don't think we want to encourage detached HEAD in public
>>> repo.
[...]
>> But obviously people use gitweb/instaweb as a way to view their
>> own live repository, and I think it makes sense to show and
>> support remotes/ in such a case. It also would make sense to
>> support detached HEAD there as well.
>
> If I understand correctly, a detached HEAD is simply a checkout in the
> middle of a branch, and thus not named. So what exactly are we looking
> for when we talk about supporting a detached HEAD? Would it be enough
> to display HEAD in the list of heads?
I think we want display HEAD in the list of heads if it is detached,
and also use it as a ref marker, while only marking (with undeline or
bold style) current head as such if HEAD is not detached, i.e. is
symref or symlink.
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-30 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-27 22:24 gitweb and remote branches Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-27 23:29 ` Jakub Narebski
[not found] ` <cb7bb73a0708280253y7d31f347yb84a40982d59d9d2@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <cb7bb73a0708280453k4315e80ej170238a52e66dcb6@mail.gmail.com>
2007-08-29 22:01 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-30 7:18 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-30 8:16 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-30 9:09 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-30 21:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-30 23:09 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-30 23:53 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-08-30 23:59 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-31 2:15 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-31 10:54 ` [PATCH 01/14] gitweb: get remotes too when getting heads list Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-31 10:55 ` [PATCH 02/14] gitweb: make remote heads in heads list optional Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-31 10:55 ` [PATCH 03/14] gitweb: git_get_heads_list now accepts an optional list of refs Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-31 10:55 ` [PATCH 04/14] gitweb: separate heads and remotes list in summary view Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-31 10:59 ` [PATCH 05/14] gitweb: allow refs passed to git_heads_body to use a name different from the hash name Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-31 11:05 ` [PATCH 06/14] gitweb: git_split_heads_body function Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-31 11:18 ` [PATCH 07/14] gitweb: use CSS to style split head lists Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-31 11:18 ` [PATCH 08/14] gitweb: add 'remotes' action as a synonym for git_heads() Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-31 11:18 ` [PATCH 09/14] gitweb: split heads list in head view if appropriate Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-31 11:19 ` [PATCH 10/14] gitweb: display HEAD in heads list when detached Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-31 11:19 ` [PATCH 11/14] gitweb: git_is_head_detached() function Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-31 11:19 ` [PATCH 12/14] gitweb: add HEAD to list of shortlog refs if detached Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-31 11:19 ` [PATCH 13/14] gitweb: CSS style and refs mark for detached HEAD Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-31 11:19 ` [PATCH 14/14] gitweb: minor whitespace cleanups Giuseppe Bilotta
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