On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 12:41:56PM +0200, Christian Meder wrote: > ------- > /<project>/blob/<blob-sha1> > /<project>/commit/<commit-sha1>
It is trivial to find an object when given a sha, but to know the object type you'd have to decompress it and check inside. Also the way git stores these things you can't have both a blob and a commit with the same sha anyways. So why not use, /<project/<hexadecimal sha1 representation> will give you the raw object. /<project/<hexadecimal sha1 representation>.html (.xml/.txt) will give you a parsed version for user presentation And since hexadecimal numbers only have [0-9a-f] as valid characters, you can still have additional directories that can be guaranteed unique as long as the first two characters are not a valid hexadecimal value. So things like /branch/linus, or /changelog/, /log/, /diff/. Yeah, you can't use /delta/ without looking at more than the first two characters, but that's where dictionaries can come in handy. Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html