Re: [PATCH] gitweb: tree view: eliminate redundant "blob"

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> ... That means that we cannot distinguish really well (at 
> least color) between tree and blob entries.

Do we even say links are blue and underlined by forcing that in
our css?

Doesn't leading drwxr-xr-x mean anything?

Why is making the distinction important in the first place?

> In the case of shortlog/log/history/heads/tags view, to clearly mark 
> subject/title of a commit or tag as link, we would have to use default 
> link decoration....
> But underlined text is harder to read, and blue underlined text even 
> more so...

This is something in which I can see some more sense than tree
vs blob issue, but only as a principle issue.  In practice, the
list of commit subjects is the first thing users encounter, and
as long as there is some visual indication (e.g. mousing over it
makes it obvious it is something that is clickable), I think
users will quickly pick up that it will lead to the commit's
detail.