Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > Or,
> >    "Click on the 'blob' link to get the ... Click on the 'tree' link to
> >     get the ... Oh you didn't know what a 'tree' or 'blob' object is?
> >     A 'blob' is ... A 'tree' is ..."
> >
> > At which point the engineer has lost 90% of his interest.
> >
> > It even gets even worse for the obnoxious "tree" link next to each commit
> > in shortlog view:
> >    "The tree link is the the tree object which is part of a commit object.
> >     Oh you don't know the internals of a commit object?  A commit object
> >     binds a tree object and a (parent) commit object, but blah, blah, blah..."
> 
> Isn't that a simple "labelling" question?  I do not think
> anybody minds to show clickable string "contents" (instead of
> "blob" or "tree") at the places you mention above and if we did
> so everybody would be happy, right?

Not, IMHO it is not a good idea. Clicking on file name leads to it
contents, but it is not obvoius what kind of view is it. "blob" link
leads to blob view, "tree" link leads to tree view, which are known
what they mean to any git user.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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