These self-contained URL are used in bookmarks and e-mails to the mailing
list. I think "the length of URL" is a red herring at best, and shortened
URL that is not self-contained is not an advantage at all.
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.
When I heard that somebody wants to do a "write support" in gitweb, I
naturally thought the proposal was about implementing RFC3253 using git as
a backend. I think it would be a reasonable thing to do (as opposed to
coming up with an ad-hoc "write support" mechanism that is not compatible
with anybody else), but on the other hand it might be a bit too ambitious
for a one-student summer project.
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