Subject: Re: gitweb testing with non-apache web server

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:37:39 +0200

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>>
>> Strange... PATH_INFO is used _only_ if 'p' parameter is not set. And all
>> links use 'p=$project', not PATH_INFO...
>>
>> Are you sure you did changes mentioned in earlier post?
> 
> Well, more importantly, why would we do something like this in the first 
> place?
> 
> Wouldn't it be a lot better to just rip out PATH_INFO stuff,
> especially since all pages the script generates use ?p=$project 
> to pass that information around and never uses PATH_INFO?

The PATH_INFO is here because it is easier to edit parameters by hand when
the most important one, the project to examine, can be passed as PATH_INFO.

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Jakub Narebski
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