From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: suggestions for gitweb Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 17:28:08 -0700 Message-ID: <7vveewp7tz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <20070512205529.GS14859@MichaelsNB> <7v8xbtwtsy.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20070513000151.GT14859@MichaelsNB> <200705131318.39723.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Michael Niedermayer , git@vger.kernel.org, Petr Baudis To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 14 02:28:19 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HnOQD-0000zL-5J for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 02:28:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755016AbXENA2L (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 20:28:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758301AbXENA2L (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 20:28:11 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao102.cox.net ([68.230.241.44]:43471 "EHLO fed1rmmtao102.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755016AbXENA2K (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 20:28:10 -0400 Received: from fed1rmimpo02.cox.net ([70.169.32.72]) by fed1rmmtao102.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.05.02.00 201-2174-114-20060621) with ESMTP id <20070514002809.ZGJ2758.fed1rmmtao102.cox.net@fed1rmimpo02.cox.net>; Sun, 13 May 2007 20:28:09 -0400 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id yoU81W00J1kojtg0000000; Sun, 13 May 2007 20:28:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200705131318.39723.jnareb@gmail.com> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Sun, 13 May 2007 13:18:39 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski writes: > Adding some gitweb-help.html page, linked somewhere from within gitweb > pages (I think it shouldn't be embedded in gitweb, like help for search > options is), certainly is possible. And perhaps we should do that, now > that gitweb is more widely deployed, and used by "accidental" users > (developers) with no knowledge of git, and perhaps even without > knowledge of SCM [terms]. Yeah, that is definitely an improvement. > It should be fairly easy to add "diff to prev" link, but is it really > needed? It would be yet another link. Diff to previous version of blob > is contained in "commitdiff" and is easy to find and go to... well, > unless you are used to make large commits... It would not be "yet another". It feels kind of odd to get the whole commitdiff from that page to begin with, when the user already expressed that his attention is focused on that particular path --- that is why he is in the History page to begin with.