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Re: [PATCHv6 2/5] gitweb: generate project/action/hash URLs

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 18, 2008, 23:14 UTC
Message-ID
<200810190114.26280.jnareb@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> 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>
Nice, well commented, and clean.
Acked-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
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> ---
>  gitweb/gitweb.perl |   33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> index 6d0dc26..5337d40 100755
> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> @@ -724,14 +724,41 @@ 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
> +		$href =~ s,/$,,;
I like having this comment here.
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> +
> +		# 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
Which meant that we prefer http://base_url/project over http://base_url/project/summary
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> +		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
> 
> 
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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Message 25 of 26 in “[PATCHv6 0/5] gitweb: PATH_INFO enhancement”
  1. Giuseppe BilottaOct 16, 2008
  2. 1/5 gitweb: parse project/action/hash_base:filename PATH_INFOGiuseppe Bilotta, Oct 16, 2008
  3. 2/5 gitweb: generate project/action/hash URLsGiuseppe Bilotta, Oct 16, 2008
  4. 3/5 gitweb: use_pathinfo filenames start with /Giuseppe Bilotta, Oct 16, 2008
  5. 4/5 gitweb: parse parent..current syntax from PATH_INFOGiuseppe Bilotta, Oct 16, 2008
  6. 5/5 gitweb: generate parent..current URLsGiuseppe Bilotta, Oct 16, 2008
  7. 6/6 gitweb: retrieve snapshot format from PATH_INFOGiuseppe Bilotta, Oct 19, 2008
  8. 6/8 gitweb: retrieve snapshot format from PATH_INFOGiuseppe Bilotta, Oct 19, 2008
  9. 7/8 gitweb: embed snapshot format parameter in PATH_INFOGiuseppe Bilotta, Oct 19, 2008
  10. 8/8 gitweb: make the supported snapshot formats array globalGiuseppe Bilotta, Oct 19, 2008
  11. Jakub NarebskiNov 2, 2008
  12. Junio C HamanoNov 2, 2008
  13. Jakub NarebskiNov 1, 2008
  14. Giuseppe BilottaNov 1, 2008
  15. Jakub NarebskiOct 21, 2008
  16. Giuseppe BilottaOct 21, 2008
  17. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2008
  18. Jakub NarebskiOct 20, 2008
  19. Giuseppe BilottaOct 20, 2008
  20. Jakub NarebskiOct 20, 2008
  21. Giuseppe BilottaOct 20, 2008
  22. Jakub NarebskiOct 18, 2008
  23. Giuseppe BilottaOct 18, 2008
  24. Jakub NarebskiOct 19, 2008
  25. Jakub NarebskiOct 18, 2008
  26. Jakub NarebskiOct 18, 2008

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