On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Sébastien Mazy <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It is rendering the tree of the head commit of that particular branch.
>> The reason it redirects to the commit sha and not the branch name is
>> that rails doesn't support multiple wildcard paths (eg
>> slashed_path/another_slashed_path) since it tell them apart easily.
>> Hence we use the commit sha of the tip commit in that particular
>> branch.
>
> And isn't it possible to get round this limitation of Rails? (just
> asking, never wrote anything using Rails or even Ruby)
>
> I see 2 problems in the current behaviour:
> - nitpicking: the URIs are not consistent depending on whether you're on
> a subdirectory branch (trees/mybranch vs tress/commit_number)
> - more annoying: I can't point someone at the tip of a subdirectory
> branch in gitorious, just to a commit that was once it
Both valid points. I think the best we can do right now is to
urlencode the slash ("foo/bar" => "foo%2Fbar") but that's kinda ugly
too.
I'm sure someone must have a better idea?
> --
> Sébastien Mazy
Cheers,
JS
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