Re: [PATCH] gitweb: don't use pathinfo for global actions

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

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Accepting global actions in use_pathinfo is not a very robust solution
due to possible present and future conflicts between project names and
global actions, therefore we just refuse to create PATH_INFO URLs when
the project is not defined.

I think it is quite robust solution and it makes sense; we use
shortcuts http://git.example.com for projects_list page, and
http://git.example.com/path/to/repo.git for overview 'summary'
action for a project, therefore pathinfo has to look like the
following: http://git.example.com/repo/action/hash with "action"
_after_ "project".  And there is also matter of backward compatibility
of URL (URLs shouldn't break).

Anyway, we have $home_link for default project_list page, which
is path_info without project, and query without query string...

Today I had this idea: a possible way to have global actions into the
path would be to use an invalid project name, but I'm not sure if
there ARE invalid project names at all. Maybe using something very
abstruse such as _projects_ (underscore "projects" underscore) or even
just _ (underscore).

The only thing I can think of for which global actions in path WOULD
be interesting would be that project tag paths would become something
like http://git.example.com/_/tag/sometagname which can be tagged by
the rel-tag microformat http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag ...

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta