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[PATCHv3] gitweb: linkify author/committer names with search

From
Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 16, 2009, 04:14 UTC
Message-ID
<1255666499-14098-1-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<1255486344-11891-1-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.

Linkify the avatar icon in log/shortlog view because the icon is directly adjacent to the name and thus more related. The same is not true when in commit/tag view where the icon is farther away.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
---
Changes since v2:
 * Add a title to make it not so suprising before you click (Jakub)
Changes since v1:
 * CSS hack has been cleaned up to only remove the link border from
    avatar icons when actually linked.
 * Checking for search capability to avoid generating search links (Wincent)
 * Linking of name and email are separate in commit/commitdiff/tag views
 gitweb/gitweb.css  |    4 ++++
 gitweb/gitweb.perl |   40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.css b/gitweb/gitweb.css
index 8faa94e..50067f2 100644
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.css
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.css
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ img.avatar {
 	vertical-align: middle;
 }
 
+a.list img.avatar {
+	border-style: none;
+}
+
 div.page_header {
 	height: 25px;
 	padding: 8px;
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 0c71ee8..63e18f4 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -1625,6 +1625,29 @@ sub git_get_avatar {
 	}
 }
 
+sub format_search_author {
+	my ($author, $searchtype, $displaytext) = @_;
+	my $have_search = gitweb_check_feature('search');
+
+	if ($have_search) {
+		my $performed = "";
+		if ($searchtype eq 'author') {
+			$performed = "authored";
+		} elsif ($searchtype eq 'committer') {
+			$performed = "committed";
+		}
+
+		return $cgi->a({-href => href(action=>"search", hash=>$hash,
+				searchtext=>$author,
+				searchtype=>$searchtype), class=>"list",
+				title=>"Search for commits $performed by $author"},
+				$displaytext);
+
+	} else {
+		return $displaytext;
+	}
+}
+
 # format the author name of the given commit with the given tag
 # the author name is chopped and escaped according to the other
 # optional parameters (see chop_str).
@@ -1633,8 +1656,10 @@ sub format_author_html {
 	my $co = shift;
 	my $author = chop_and_escape_str($co->{'author_name'}, @_);
 	return "<$tag class=\"author\">" .
-	       git_get_avatar($co->{'author_email'}, -pad_after => 1) .
-	       $author . "</$tag>";
+	       format_search_author($co->{'author_name'}, "author",
+		       git_get_avatar($co->{'author_email'}, -pad_after => 1) .
+		       $author) .
+	       "</$tag>";
 }
 
 # format git diff header line, i.e. "diff --(git|combined|cc) ..."
@@ -3433,10 +3458,11 @@ 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($co->{'author_name'}) .
+	      format_search_author($author, "author", esc_html($author)) .
 	      " [$ad{'rfc2822'}";
 	print_local_time(%ad) if ($opts{-localtime});
 	print "]" . git_get_avatar($co->{'author_email'}, -pad_before => 1)
@@ -3455,8 +3481,12 @@ 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>" .
+		      format_search_author($co->{"${who}_name"}, $who,
+			       esc_html($co->{"${who}_name"})) . " " .
+		      format_search_author($co->{"${who}_email"}, $who,
+			       esc_html("<" . $co->{"${who}_email"} . ">")) .
+		      "</td><td rowspan=\"2\">" .
 		      git_get_avatar($co->{"${who}_email"}, -size => 'double') .
 		      "</td></tr>\n" .
 		      "<tr>" .
-- 
1.6.5.94.gb6c65
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  1. gitweb: linkify author/committer names with searchStephen Boyd, Oct 14, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 14, 2009
  3. Wincent ColaiutaOct 14, 2009
  4. [PATCHv2] gitweb: linkify author/committer names with searchStephen Boyd, Oct 14, 2009
  5. Jakub NarebskiOct 15, 2009
  6. Stephen BoydOct 15, 2009
  7. [PATCHv3] gitweb: linkify author/committer names with searchStephen Boyd, Oct 16, 2009

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