Hi On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 03:08:31AM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 02:01:52AM CEST, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 03:39:25PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@xxxxxx> writes: > > > > > > > * gitweb uses many terms which are new to a non git user, and while > > > > devlopers who work on ffmpeg will very likely very quickly have > > > > figured out the meaning of all of them. i think simple users who just > > > > want to browse the ffmpeg code will have their problems, so i belive > > > > a small help text linked to from all pages which contains a short > > > > definition of all the git(web) specific terms would be very helpfull > > > > something like > > > > blob - file at a specific revission/date > > > > tree - directory at a specific revission/date > > > > (short) log - project wide commit log > > > > history - short log equivalent for a file or directory > > > > > > Coming fron non-CVS camp, I think changing this to non-git terms > > > is very harmful than educating users who are migrating from > > > other systems. > > > > you must missunderstand me :( > > i want to educate them, but i cannot as iam not speaking about ffmpeg > > developers/contributors but rather random people who are curious and > > want to take a look at the ffmpeg source > > > > for them a simple help link similar to "ViewVC Help" which viewvc has > > on the bottom right of its pages would be great IMHO > > also the text above is a pure random suggestion by a svn user and was > > not intended to redefine any git terms > > I seriously doubt the usefulness of this. Meaning of all the links except > maybe blob seems immediately obvious for me, even if I try to imagine > that I know nothing about Git; maybe I'm wrong here, I might try to do > an experiment. :-) > > But, even if that's the case, when a new user meets gitweb and looks > at the 'history' link, what do you think she will do? Start hunting the > page for some link to a glossary? I yet have to see a user like that :-) > - I will bet that she just clicks at the link and figures out what it is > about based on what happenned. i agree with you that she will click on 'history' and figure out what it is but if she wants to see the contents of one of the files then i think she will be confused and not know where to click, and a 'help' link which would lead to a page which explains what 'blob' is at the top of the page would solve that with less frustration than random clicking around (renaming blob to file_content would work too but i guess i would be lynched for mere suggesting ...) this of course is not really a problem for ffmpeg, we could easily change "our" gitweb to contain a help link [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. -- Epicurus
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