Re: gitweb / cg-export

> Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> >Jakub Narebski wrote:
> >>Toby White wrote:
> >>
> >>>I was wondering if a feature like the following would be of
> >>>use to anyone except me: I'd like to be able to download
> >>>the full source of a given tree from gitweb.
> >>[...]
> >>So you want to have snapshot of a tree. Why not snapshot of a commit, 
> >>or of a tag?
> >>
> >>>I've quickly hacked gitweb to do this for me - patch below.
> >>>
> >>>It adds an extra link to the 'commit' page. Next to the link
> >>>that would lead you to 'tree', there is 'tar.gz' which simply
> >>>returns the tar.gz of the same tree.
> >>>
> >>>The patch is against the version of gitweb currently in
> >>>Debian, which is, erm, '264-1', apparently, because that's
> >>>what I had to hand.
> >>
> >>It is really better to hack git with git. And you can use current gitweb
> >>with old git (well, not always, as current gitweb requires --full-history
> >>option to git-rev-list to be available).
> >>
> >
> >How about the below on top of latest git
> 
> Add it to git_commit too. The patch contains the pervious changes also.
> 

> +sub git_snapshot {
> +	if (!defined $hash) {
> +		$hash = git_get_head_hash($project);
> +	}
> +	print $cgi->header(-type=>'application/x-tar',
> +			  -Content-Encoding=>'x-gzip', -status=> '200 OK');
> +	open my $fd, "-|", "$GIT tar-tree $hash $project | gzip -c9" or die_error(undef, "Execute git-tar-tree failed.");