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gritzko • yesterday at 10:30 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

In my current project I use URIs to refer to absolutely any entity in a git(-ish) repo. Files, branches, revisions, diffs, anything. URI turns out to be a really good addressing scheme for everything. Surprise. But the most used and abused element is always the path. Query takes a lot of that mess away. Might have been unmanageable otherwise.

https://github.com/gritzko/beagle

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gritzko • yesterday at 10:40 PM

In fact, GitHub URIs are a good example of overusing paths: https://github.com/gritzko/beagle/blob/a7e17290a39250092055f...

  - user gritzko,
  - project beagle, 
  - view blob, 
  - commit a7e17290a39250092055fcda5ae7015868dabdb4, 
  - file path VERBS.md
... all concatenated indiscriminately.
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