From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: gitweb wishlist Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 21:55:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20050524161745.GA9537@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <20050524184612.GA23637@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <20050524202846.GC25606@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <20050524213102.GB19180@vrfy.org> <7vu0ksoxg4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 25 06:52:09 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Danrw-0000bN-IS for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 06:51:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262255AbVEYExV (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2005 00:53:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262259AbVEYExV (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2005 00:53:21 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:2949 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262255AbVEYExS (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2005 00:53:18 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j4P4rDjA022001 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 24 May 2005 21:53:14 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j4P4rCRh004489; Tue, 24 May 2005 21:53:12 -0700 To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vu0ksoxg4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.40__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.109 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 24 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I was browsing www.kernel.org/git and noticed that it shows > only files that exist at the tip. How do I get history of a > file that does not exist anymore at the tip? The only sane interface I can think of is to expose the subdirectory history and then pick from that. Otherwise you'd have to actually type in the name, which is a bit against the notion of a graphical browsing interface. Linus