From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/10852 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl new-year's infrastructure resolutions Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 13:25:16 -0500 Message-ID: <20170102182516.GC1555@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20161231233747.GV1555@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20170102165832.GA1555@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20170102181535.GB31400@openwall.com> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1483381545 24809 195.159.176.226 (2 Jan 2017 18:25:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 18:25:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-10865-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon Jan 02 19:25:41 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by blaine.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cO7IY-0004qN-B9 for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2017 19:25:30 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 3473 invoked by uid 550); 2 Jan 2017 18:25:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 3454 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2017 18:25:29 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170102181535.GB31400@openwall.com> Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:10852 Archived-At: On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 07:15:35PM +0100, Solar Designer wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 11:58:32AM -0500, Rich Felker wrote: > > My experiences with github have been a constant fight with the tools > > rather than having them make things go more smoothly. I don't like the > > weight of the web ui (it's very slow on all systems I access it on), I > > don't like that it doesn't work properly from mobile browsers (e.g. > > line-number links to source files don't work), I don't like how much > > you have to click through to get to the history of a given file or to > > get a link to a specific version, I don't like that it's impossible to > > review large diffs in the web ui (they just timeout loading), etc. I > > also don't like everything they do to make it hard to use FF pulls. > > I am no GitHub expert (am not even much of a user), and based on my > (very limited) experience with it so far I agree with your criticism of > it, but FWIW I recently found that "to get a link to a specific version" > you simply need to press "y": > > https://help.github.com/articles/getting-permanent-links-to-files/ > > "When viewing a file on GitHub, you can press the "y" key to update the > URL to a permalink to the exact version of the file you see." > > and I actually made use of this on a few occasions already. There are > other keyboard shortcuts as well. As the page above says: > > "Tip: Press "?" on any page in GitHub to see all available keyboard > shortcuts." Thanks for the tip! Proving once again that the fastest way to get a solution to a problem is to claim in public that it's not possible... ;-) Rich