loggerhead

Cannot view a directory by editing urls

Bug #569358 reported by Jasper St. Pierre on 2010-04-24

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	loggerhead	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

URLs should be hand-editable friendly. My first instinct to go from "blob/a/b/c.txt" to its parent directory or the root of a repo is to delete the filename portion of the URL, which becomes "blob/a/b/". This does not work in Loggerhead. cgit handles this nicely by having a soft redirect from the incorrect "blob/a/b/" URL to the correct "tree/a/b/".

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lp:~jstpierre/loggerhead/fix-569358

Merged into lp:loggerhead at revision 434

John A Meinel: Approve on 2011-03-15

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote on 2011-01-28:

So there are two separate issues here; the ':' issue - I've not seen a browser that had trouble, and most show it as : in the url bar. Lets then focus on the other issue.

summary:	- Code viewer URLs have problems + Cannot view a directory by editing urls
description:	updated
Changed in loggerhead:
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Max Kanat-Alexander (mkanat) wrote on 2011-01-28:

Oh, yeah, a soft redirect is a good idea. :-) Much better than trying to re-work all the controllers into a single "browse" controller.

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Jasper St. Pierre (jstpierre) wrote on 2011-01-28:

"Cannot view a directory" -- just want to make it explicit that file redirects from tree, like "tree/a/b/c.txt" should be added too if it's not too hard.

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Jasper St. Pierre (jstpierre) wrote on 2012-03-19:

This has been fixed for some time now.