alt Hacker NewsThe main reason to have those links is for people to click on them. No sensibly programmed machine is scraping diffs from a git web front end.
The main reason to have those links is for people to click on them. No sensibly programmed machine is scraping diffs from a git web front end.
Not to mention it is the least efficient representation of git commits. It seems a lot of people are unaware that git generates the diff representation you see with "git show" on the fly -- internally, commits are Merkle trees representing a snapshot of the repo file contents.
As you said, if you actually want to interact with a remote git repo you'd do so with packfiles not diffs.