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[RFC/PATCH] gitweb: linkify author/committer names with search

From
Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 12, 2009, 06:19 UTC
Message-ID
<1255328340-28449-1-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com>

It's nice to search for an author by merely clicking on their name in gitweb. This is usually faster than selecting the name, copying the selection, pasting it into the search box, selecting between author/committer and then hitting enter.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
---
Cc'ed Jakub as he seems to be resident gitweb expert. 
I thought this might be a nice addition.

The problem is I can't get it to work with UTF-8 characters. I'm not sure if it's my system or not, so I'm just posting here to see if others experience the same problem and if there's interest.

 gitweb/gitweb.perl |   18 ++++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 24b2193..349e734 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -1604,7 +1604,10 @@ sub format_author_html {
 	my $author = chop_and_escape_str($co->{'author_name'}, @_);
 	return "<$tag class=\"author\">" .
 	       git_get_avatar($co->{'author_email'}, -pad_after => 1) .
-	       $author . "</$tag>";
+	       $cgi->a({-href => href(action=>"search", hash=>$hash,
+			searchtext=>$co->{'author_name'},
+			searchtype=>"author"), class=>"list"}, $author) .
+	       "</$tag>";
 }
 
 # format git diff header line, i.e. "diff --(git|combined|cc) ..."
@@ -3373,10 +3376,13 @@ sub git_print_authorship {
 	my $co = shift;
 	my %opts = @_;
 	my $tag = $opts{-tag} || 'div';
+	my $author = $co->{'author_name'};
 
 	my %ad = parse_date($co->{'author_epoch'}, $co->{'author_tz'});
 	print "<$tag class=\"author_date\">" .
-	      esc_html($co->{'author_name'}) .
+	      $cgi->a({-href => href(action=>"search", searchtext=>$author,
+		      searchtype=>"author"), class=>"list"},
+		      esc_html($author)) .
 	      " [$ad{'rfc2822'}";
 	print_local_time(%ad) if ($opts{-localtime});
 	print "]" . git_get_avatar($co->{'author_email'}, -pad_before => 1)
@@ -3395,8 +3401,12 @@ sub git_print_authorship_rows {
 	@people = ('author', 'committer') unless @people;
 	foreach my $who (@people) {
 		my %wd = parse_date($co->{"${who}_epoch"}, $co->{"${who}_tz"});
-		print "<tr><td>$who</td><td>" . esc_html($co->{$who}) . "</td>" .
-		      "<td rowspan=\"2\">" .
+		print "<tr><td>$who</td><td>" .
+		      $cgi->a({-href => href(action=>"search",
+			       searchtext=>$co->{"${who}_name"},
+			       searchtype=>$who), class=>"list"},
+			       esc_html($co->{$who})) .
+		      "</td><td rowspan=\"2\">" .
 		      git_get_avatar($co->{"${who}_email"}, -size => 'double') .
 		      "</td></tr>\n" .
 		      "<tr>" .
-- 
1.6.5.1.g53fd
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  3. Stephen BoydOct 13, 2009
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