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[PATCH] gitweb: support the rel=vcs-* microformat

From
Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date
Jan 7, 2009, 23:24 UTC
Message-ID
<20090107232427.GA18958@gnu.kitenet.net>
In-Reply-To
<20090107190238.GA3909@gnu.kitenet.net>

The rel=vcs-* microformat allows a web page to indicate the locations of repositories related to it in a machine-parseable manner. (See http://kitenet.net/~joey/rfc/rel-vcs/)

Make gitweb use the microformat if it has been configured with project url information in any of the usual ways. On the project summary page, the repository URL display is simply marked up using the microformat. On the project list page and forks list page, the microformat is embedded in the header, since the URLs do not appear on the page.

The microformat could be included on other pages too, but I've skipped doing so for now, since it would mean reading another file for every page displayed.

There is a small overhead in including the microformat on project list and forks list pages, but getting the project descriptions for those pages already incurs a similar overhead, and the ability to get every repo url in one place seems worthwhile.

This changes git_get_project_url_list() to not check wantarray, and only return in list context -- the only way it is used AFAICS. It memoizes both that function and git_get_project_description(), to avoid redundant file reads.

Signed-off-by: Joey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net>
---
 gitweb/gitweb.perl |   78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

This incorporates Giuseppe Bilotta's feedback, and uses new features of the microformat. You can see this version running at http://git.ikiwiki.info/

diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 99f71b4..c238717 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -2020,9 +2020,14 @@ sub git_get_path_by_hash {
 ## ......................................................................
 ## git utility functions, directly accessing git repository
 
+{
+my %project_descriptions; # cache
+
 sub git_get_project_description {
 	my $path = shift;
 
+	return $project_descriptions{$path} if exists $project_descriptions{$path};
+
 	$git_dir = "$projectroot/$path";
 	open my $fd, "$git_dir/description"
 		or return git_get_project_config('description');
@@ -2031,7 +2036,9 @@ sub git_get_project_description {
 	if (defined $descr) {
 		chomp $descr;
 	}
-	return $descr;
+	return $project_descriptions{$path}=$descr;
+}
+
 }
 
 sub git_get_project_ctags {
@@ -2099,18 +2106,30 @@ sub git_show_project_tagcloud {
 	}
 }
 
+{
+my %project_url_lists; # cache
+
 sub git_get_project_url_list {
+	# use per project git URL list in $projectroot/$path/cloneurl
+	# or make project git URL from git base URL and project name
 	my $path = shift;
 
+	return @{$project_url_lists{$path}} if exists $project_url_lists{$path};
+
+	my @ret;
 	$git_dir = "$projectroot/$path";
-	open my $fd, "$git_dir/cloneurl"
-		or return wantarray ?
-		@{ config_to_multi(git_get_project_config('url')) } :
-		   config_to_multi(git_get_project_config('url'));
-	my @git_project_url_list = map { chomp; $_ } <$fd>;
-	close $fd;
+	if (open my $fd, "$git_dir/cloneurl") {
+		@ret = map { chomp; $_ } <$fd>;
+		close $fd;
+	} else {
+	       @ret = @{ config_to_multi(git_get_project_config('url')) };
+	}
+	@ret=map { "$_/$project" } @git_base_url_list if ! @ret;
+
+	$project_url_lists{$path}=\@ret;
+	return @ret;
+}
 
-	return wantarray ? @git_project_url_list : \@git_project_url_list;
 }
 
 sub git_get_projects_list {
@@ -2856,6 +2875,7 @@ sub blob_contenttype {
 sub git_header_html {
 	my $status = shift || "200 OK";
 	my $expires = shift;
+	my $extraheader = shift;
 
 	my $title = "$site_name";
 	if (defined $project) {
@@ -2953,6 +2973,8 @@ EOF
 		print qq(<link rel="shortcut icon" href="$favicon" type="image/png" />\n);
 	}
 
+	print $extraheader if defined $extraheader;
+
 	print "</head>\n" .
 	      "<body>\n";
 
@@ -4365,6 +4387,26 @@ sub git_search_grep_body {
 	print "</table>\n";
 }
 
+sub git_link_title {
+	my $project=shift;
+	
+	my $description=git_get_project_description($project);
+	return $project.(length $description ? " - $description" : "");
+}
+
+# generates header with links to the specified projects
+sub git_links_header {
+	my $ret='';
+	foreach my $project (@_) {
+		# rel=vcs-* microformat
+		my $title=git_link_title($project);
+		foreach my $url git_get_project_url_list($project) {
+			$ret.=qq{<link rel="vcs-git" href="$url" title="$title"/>\n}
+		}
+	}
+	return $ret;
+}
+
 ## ======================================================================
 ## ======================================================================
 ## actions
@@ -4380,7 +4422,9 @@ sub git_project_list {
 		die_error(404, "No projects found");
 	}
 
-	git_header_html();
+	my $extraheader=git_links_header(map { $_->{path} } @list);
+
+	git_header_html(undef, undef, $extraheader);
 	if (-f $home_text) {
 		print "<div class=\"index_include\">\n";
 		insert_file($home_text);
@@ -4405,8 +4449,10 @@ sub git_forks {
 	if (!@list) {
 		die_error(404, "No forks found");
 	}
+	
+	my $extraheader=git_links_header(map { $_->{path} } @list);
 
-	git_header_html();
+	git_header_html(undef, undef, $extraheader);
 	git_print_page_nav('','');
 	git_print_header_div('summary', "$project forks");
 	git_project_list_body(\@list, $order);
@@ -4468,14 +4514,14 @@ sub git_summary {
 		print "<tr id=\"metadata_lchange\"><td>last change</td><td>$cd{'rfc2822'}</td></tr>\n";
 	}
 
-	# use per project git URL list in $projectroot/$project/cloneurl
-	# or make project git URL from git base URL and project name
 	my $url_tag = "URL";
-	my @url_list = git_get_project_url_list($project);
-	@url_list = map { "$_/$project" } @git_base_url_list unless @url_list;
-	foreach my $git_url (@url_list) {
+	my $title=git_link_title($project);
+	foreach my $git_url (git_get_project_url_list($project)) {
 		next unless $git_url;
-		print "<tr class=\"metadata_url\"><td>$url_tag</td><td>$git_url</td></tr>\n";
+		print "<tr class=\"metadata_url\"><td>$url_tag</td><td>".
+		      # rel=vcs-* microformat
+		      "<a rel=\"vcs-git\" href=\"$git_url\" title=\"$title\">$git_url</a>".
+		      "</td></tr>\n";
 		$url_tag = "";
 	}
 
-- 
1.5.6.5



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  3. Joey HessJan 7, 2009
  4. Giuseppe BilottaJan 7, 2009
  5. Joey HessJan 7, 2009
  6. Jakub NarebskiJan 10, 2009
  7. Joey HessJan 7, 2009
  8. Joey HessJan 7, 2009
  9. gitweb: support the rel=vcs-* microformatJoey Hess, Jan 7, 2009
  10. Giuseppe BilottaJan 8, 2009
  11. gitweb index performance (Re: [PATCH] gitweb: support the rel=vcs-* microformat)Joey Hess, Jan 8, 2009
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