Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: tree view: eliminate redundant "blob"

From: Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:15:16 +0200

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>> Doesn't leading drwxr-xr-x mean anything?
> 
> Neither d in drwxr-xr-x, nor trailing / in the name are significant
> enough indicators of directory vs file (tree vs blob) indicator,
> especially that by default git-ls-tree output mixes trees with blobs.
>  

I beg to differ. The trailing slash would indeed help, as peoples eyes 
are generally focused on the mouse-pointer rather than some 5-10" to the 
left of it. If we're worrying that windows folks use \ for 
path-delimiter, I think they'll pick up the difference quick enough.

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