Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: tree view: hash_base and hash are now context sensitive

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:27:36 +0200

Luben Tuikov wrote:

> What this patch does is simply set "h" and/or "hb" to
> the string "HEAD" instead of the string "<SHA1 of HEAD>" when
> h/hb is not defined.

I guess there it is a good idea, but we should always think
over if we want "constant" link, always showing the same thing,
or a "variable" (or "news") link, showing current version.

Explicit sha1 hash as 'h'/'hb' gives persistent, cacheable link,
while e.g. "HEAD" gives "variable" link.
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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