alt Hacker Newshow does adding the word blob in the url help with that?
i don't think it makes a difference here.
in fact compare these urls:
https://github.com/gritzko/beagle/blob/a7e172/VERBS.md
https://github.com/gritzko/beagle/raw/a7e172/VERBS.md
https://github.com/gritzko/beagle/commit/a7e172/VERBS.md
turns out that "blob", "raw" and "commit" have nothing to do with the hash itself, but are functions to describe how the object in question is to be presented. so what i said above about blob being redundant is false, the problem is rather that it is in a weird place. it should be at the end, like a kind of extension because it signifies the format of the output. except i think putting it at the end makes handling relative paths more difficult as it would have to be appended to every link to other files.
the roxen webserver has an interesting solution for that. they call it prestates and it's placed at the beginning of a url: https://github.com/(commit)/gritzko/beagle/a7e172/VERBS.md . it sets the format value visually apart, and you could have multiple prestate values separated by a comma. i have used that feature extensively on my own sites. i even expanded on the concept in custom modules.
> how does adding the word blob in the url help with that? i don't think it makes a difference here.
How does adding a disambiguating segment help disambiguate?
"in fact, consider these urls":
https://github.com/gritzko/beagle/issues
https://github.com/gritzko/beagle/pulse
> are functions to describe how the object in question is to be presented
So they are functions, which take parameters, which makes prefix notation reasonably natural?
> the problem is rather that it is in a weird place. it should be at the end
That's, like, your opinion man.
> except i think putting it at the end makes handling relative paths more difficult as it would have to be appended to every link to other files.
It also doesn't make sense when file paths may not be relevant at all e.g. compare
https://github.com/gritzko/beagle/commit/a7e172
and
https://github.com/gritzko/beagle/commit/a7e172/VERBS.md
As well as where https://github.com/gritzko/beagle/blob/a7e172/ ends up
> the roxen webserver has an interesting solution for that. they call it prestates and it's placed at the beginning of a url: https://github.com/(commit)/gritzko/beagle/a7e172/VERBS.md .
> When developing and debugging is a great help to be able to turn on and off specific parts of the code that generates the current page.
That doesn't have anything to do with what github does.