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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse•cz>
Cc: Pavan Kumar Sunkara <pavan.sss1991@gmail•com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>,
	Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily•org>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail•com>,
	Shawn O Pearce <spearce@spearce•org>,
	Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail•com>, Sam Vilain <sam@vilain•net>
Subject: Re: GSoC 2010: "Integrated Web Client for git" proposal
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:27:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpq8w8j1vb7.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100419090734.GA10939@machine.or.cz> (Petr Baudis's message of "Mon\, 19 Apr 2010 11\:07\:34 +0200")

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse•cz> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 01:08:26PM +0530, Pavan Kumar Sunkara wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> wrote:
>> > On the other hand, a proposal about giving multiple clients access to
>> > their own individual server-side checkouts (ala "workspace" in DELTA-V)
>> > would require some mechanism to maintain the state on the server end, and
>> > session management would be one ingredient necessary to achieve that.
>
> But what if I will want to give a link to my "workspace" to someone
> else? You can embed workspace id in the URL, in fact you would probably
> just use it instead of project name completely naturally. I still don't
> see any need for sessions.

One use-case I'd like this work to be able to address is:

Many of my colleagues don't want to use Git. If I send them a mail
with the cut-and-paste-ready "git clone" command, they'll still reply
asking for an attachment to an email, and they'll send me their
modifications the same way.

In a good write-enabled web interface, they'd browse the repository
online, pick a file, and the download page would point them to a URL
containing the filename, and the base commit, with a form to upload a
new version of the file.

Some time later, they could re-use the same URL, and upload the
modified version of the file. Actually, I could even do the first step
myself, and send them an email with the attachment and the URL, and
they'd upload their version whenever they want. The upload should
create a commit in a separate branch, starting from the base commit
contained in the URL. I could do the merge myself later in case of
non-fast forward.

That's a real senario, and I believe it would be a rather common
use-case of a web-based git client: a power-user prepares the work,
and sends well-prepared URL to newbies. This really requires GET
parameters.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-19 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-15  4:30 GSoC 2010: "Integrated Web Client for git" proposal Christian Couder
2010-04-18  0:46 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-18  0:59   ` Petr Baudis
2010-04-18  1:24     ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-18  2:12       ` Petr Baudis
2010-04-18  8:52         ` Pavan Kumar Sunkara
2010-04-18 21:22           ` Jakub Narebski
     [not found]             ` <w2pe72faaa81004182334xd6fc56d7o31420ca4af867cc2@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-19  6:35               ` Pavan Kumar Sunkara
2010-04-19 17:00               ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-19 17:55                 ` Pavan Kumar Sunkara
2010-04-19 23:14                   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-20 12:17                     ` Pavan Kumar Sunkara
2010-04-18 22:31           ` Petr Baudis
2010-04-19  6:46             ` Pavan Kumar Sunkara
2010-04-19  6:50               ` Matthieu Moy
2010-04-19  7:23                 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-19  7:38                   ` Pavan Kumar Sunkara
2010-04-19  9:07                     ` Petr Baudis
2010-04-19 12:27                       ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2010-04-19 12:57                         ` Pavan Kumar Sunkara
2010-04-19 13:14                           ` Matthieu Moy
2010-04-19 11:57               ` Petr Baudis
2010-04-19 18:10                 ` Pavan Kumar Sunkara
2010-04-20 11:47                   ` Petr Baudis
2010-04-18 17:50         ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-18 19:56           ` Petr Baudis
2010-04-19 10:43             ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-19 11:51               ` Petr Baudis
2010-04-19 18:03                 ` Pavan Kumar Sunkara
2010-04-20 12:07                   ` Petr Baudis
2010-04-20 18:14                 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-21 20:49                   ` Pavan Kumar Sunkara
2010-04-22 20:25                     ` Petr Baudis
2010-04-22 21:15                       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-23  7:10                         ` Petr Baudis
2010-04-23  9:44                           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-22 21:53                       ` Pavan Kumar Sunkara
2010-04-23  5:27                     ` Christian Couder
2010-04-23  5:42                       ` Pavan Kumar Sunkara

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