Dear diary, on Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 08:34:38PM CEST, I got a letter where Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> said that... > Petr Baudis wrote: > > > Nope, you get the stuff in $PATH_INFO. And having at least just the > > project name in the path part would be quite nice, it's my common gripe > > with cvsweb as I frequently get to mangle with the query part manually > > (can be much faster than clicking around) and I have to carefully evade > > the project name part, which is something I would really expect to be in > > the "static" part of the URL. > > But without web server support I think you would need one copy/symbolic link > per repository served. Nope. As I said, the webserver stops in the path at the point it hits the CGI and the rest is in $PATH_INFO. > > When we are talking about URLs, it would be quite nice if the query > > parameter names would be actually meaningful instead of some cryptic > > 'h', 'pg' and whatnot. > > I guess that is because hash values are somewhat long (40 characters wide), > so one letter parameter names were chosen to shorten URL. I might argue that since the hash values are so long, few extra bytes for having the names make some sense aren't going to hurt. Thanks for the dictionary, though. :) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html