Re: [PATCH 1/2] gitweb: add patch view

Wow, I honestly didn't expect this idea to be so successful. I thought
I was the only one using gitweb to send patches around, honestly 8-D

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

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If this does what I think it does I would be very happy with this
feature :). Only yesterday I wanted to link someone to a patch I put
up on repo.or.cz, but instead ended up telling them to download the
snapshot.

True. 'commitdiff_plain' wasn't good enough; what's more it suffers
from the same ambiguity as 'commitdiff', i.e. it is both means to
show diff _for_ a commit (perhaps selecting one of parents), and
showing diff _between_ two commits; the new 'patch' always shows
diff for a commit, or for a series of commits.

Maybe commitdiff should me renamed to just be 'diff'.

Also, I was in doubt about the name for the new view, and I did
consider 'patchset' (which you mention in your email). I chose to
stick with the shorter form in the end, since many people complain
that gitweb already produces paths that are too long.

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta