[rortian]

I think github makes a good crack at it

http://github.com/rortian/Retinex/blob/53a2f818ce301f4912b02...

But, you're right I was wrong to say anything about REST. I just thought it was an interest way to do a git tree explorer.

I'm sure it's not desirable to come up with a minimal character URL for this sort of thing, but I hard to see either approach as suboptimal.

[jacobolus]

So you like slashes between unlabeled arguments instead of key=value pairs separated by semicolons? I don’t see how the slashes have any particular advantage, given that the URLs are much too long to be remembered or easily read aloud, etc., either way.

[rortian]

Totally depends on the context. I see no reason to have a priori preference for either. This way of doing it somehow felt counter to what feels like the trend for a lot of sites.

When I'm messing with my own site, I prefer to do key value pairs, so I can easily see what I'm messing with.

I do like having some things with a rails/route type url mapping. Tends to allow for much more simplified code.