[PATCHv2 03/10] gitweb: Use "previous" header of git-blame -p in 'blame' view

Luben Tuikov changed 'lineno' link (line number link) from pointing to
'blame' view at given line at blamed commit, to the one at parent of
blamed commit in
  244a70e (Blame "linenr" link jumps to previous state at
           "orig_lineno", 2007-01-04).
This made it possible to do data mining using 'blame' view, by going
through history of a line using mentioned line number link.

Original implementation called "git rev-parse <commit>^" to find SHA-1
of a parent of a given commit once per each blamed line.  In
  39c19ce (gitweb: cache $parent_commit info in git_blame(),
           2008-12-11)
this was improved so rev-parse was called once per each unique commit
in git-blame output.  Alternate solution would be to relax validation
for 'hb' parameter by allowing extended SHA-1 syntax of the form
<rev>^ (perhaps redirecting to gitweb URL with <rev>^ resolved, in
practice moving call to rev-parse to 'the other side of link').

This solution had a bug that it didn't work for boundary commits.
Boundary commits don't have parents, so "git rev-parse <commit>^"
returned literal "<commit>^" (which didn't exists).  Gitweb didn't
detect this situation and passed this result literally as 'hb'
parameter in 'linenr' link.  Following such link currently gives
  400 - Invalid hash base parameter
error; 'hb' parameter is restricted via validate_refname to correct
refnames and doesn't allow for extended SHA-1 syntax.  This bug could
have been fixed alternatively by checking if commit is boundary commit,
or check if rev-parse result is unchanged (still ends in '^' prefix).

The solution employing rev-parse to find parent of commit had inherent problem if blamed commit renamed file; then name of file would be different in its parent. Solving this outside git-blame would be difficult and costly (at least cost of additional fork for extra git command).

Currently gitweb uses information in "previous" header, which was
introduced by Junio C Hamano in
  96e1170 (blame: show "previous" information in
           --porcelain/--incremental format, 2008-06-04)
This (currently undocumented) header has the following format:
  "previous <sha1 of parent commit> <filename at parent>"
Using "previous" header solves both problem of performance and the
problem that blamed commit could have renaming blamed file.

Because "previous" header can be repeated for the same commit when blamed commit is merge (has more than one parent), and we are interested usually in _first_ parent, currently we store only first value if blame header repeats. Using first parent (first "previous" line) was what gitweb did before; without this change gitweb would use last parent instead.

If there is no previous commit 'linenr' link points to blamed commit and blamed filename, making it work correctly for boundary commits.

Acked-by: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
---
Note that it does not change "sha1" link from 'commit' to 'commitdiff'
view, as requested by Junio C Hamano.  This is left for later,
separate commit.

New in v2:
 * we don't use totally unnecessary newly introduced unquote_maybe(),
   as unquote == unquote_maybe (unquotes only when necessary).
 * Added ACK from Luben Tuikov (author of 'data mining' behaviour)
   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/123154

BTW. I think as a side effect this patch makes code a bit cleaner.

 gitweb/gitweb.perl |   27 ++++++++++++++-------------
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)