> 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.