Hashbang routing - Enter site at root path ("/")

[TheSharpieOne]

Angular version: 1.2.7
Browsers affected: All (?)

When html5Mode is false and the url is at the root (mysite.com or mysite.com/) the hash does not get added, the path and url in $location are "" when they should be "/". manually adding the hash (entering mysite.com/#/ specifically) will correct this problem, but you should not require people to enter the hash to enter the site.

What should happen is the url mysite.com or mysite.com/ should change to mysite.com/#/ as it does for deeper links.

[IgorMinar]

we should set the path to / in this case, but not update the actual window.location.hash

the reason why we don't want to update window.location.hash is not to make address bar changes when user enters a site. it's ugly and intrusive.