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[PATCHv7 2/5] gitweb: generate project/action/hash URLs

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Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 21, 2008, 19:34 UTC
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When generating path info URLs, reduce the number of CGI parameters by embedding action and hash_parent:filename or hash in the path.

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
---
 gitweb/gitweb.perl |   33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 1f847bb..27587aa 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -731,14 +731,41 @@ sub href (%) {
 
 	my ($use_pathinfo) = gitweb_check_feature('pathinfo');
 	if ($use_pathinfo) {
-		# use PATH_INFO for project name
+		# try to put as many parameters as possible in PATH_INFO:
+		#   - project name
+		#   - action
+		#   - hash or hash_base:filename
+
+		# When the script is the root DirectoryIndex for the domain,
+		# $href here would be something like http://gitweb.example.com/
+		# Thus, we strip any trailing / from $href, to spare us double
+		# slashes in the final URL
+		$href =~ s,/$,,;
+
+		# Then add the project name, if present
 		$href .= "/".esc_url($params{'project'}) if defined $params{'project'};
 		delete $params{'project'};
 
-		# Summary just uses the project path URL
-		if (defined $params{'action'} && $params{'action'} eq 'summary') {
+		# Summary just uses the project path URL, any other action is
+		# added to the URL
+		if (defined $params{'action'}) {
+			$href .= "/".esc_url($params{'action'}) unless $params{'action'} eq 'summary';
 			delete $params{'action'};
 		}
+
+		# Finally, we put either hash_base:file_name or hash
+		if (defined $params{'hash_base'}) {
+			$href .= "/".esc_url($params{'hash_base'});
+			if (defined $params{'file_name'}) {
+				$href .= ":".esc_url($params{'file_name'});
+				delete $params{'file_name'};
+			}
+			delete $params{'hash'};
+			delete $params{'hash_base'};
+		} elsif (defined $params{'hash'}) {
+			$href .= "/".esc_url($params{'hash'});
+			delete $params{'hash'};
+		}
 	}
 
 	# now encode the parameters explicitly
-- 
1.5.6.5
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  2. 1/5 gitweb: parse project/action/hash_base:filename PATH_INFOGiuseppe Bilotta, Oct 21, 2008
  3. 2/5 gitweb: generate project/action/hash URLsGiuseppe Bilotta, Oct 21, 2008
  4. 3/5 gitweb: use_pathinfo filenames start with /Giuseppe Bilotta, Oct 21, 2008
  5. 4/5 gitweb: parse parent..current syntax from PATH_INFOGiuseppe Bilotta, Oct 21, 2008
  6. 5/5 gitweb: generate parent..current URLsGiuseppe Bilotta, Oct 21, 2008

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