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Re: [PATCH v3] Isolate If-Modified-Since handling in gitweb

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W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Date
Mar 21, 2012, 14:04 UTC
Message-ID
<20120321140429.GA28721@odin.tremily.us>
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 06:19:51AM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> By the way, it is custom on this mailing list to usually Cc (send a
> copy) to all people participating in discussion, and not only to git
> mailing list.

Ah, sorry. I figured that if you got the original email to the list, I'd just be doubling up in your inbox by Cc-ing you directly.

> Though trouble with coming up with a short but fairly complete
> one-line summary might mean that this patch would be better split in
> two: refactoring and adding support for If-Modified-Since to
> snapshots.
Agreed.
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> >                                  where it is appropriate
>                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This doesn't add any information.  I think it the commit message would
> be better if you either remove this, or expand (in a separate
> paragraph) where support for If-Modified-Since might make sense, and
> where it could not.
I'll expand it in the refactoring patch.
> BTW. what happened to diffstat?

My local branch has sequential commits for each patch version (e.g., commits for v1, v2, ...). When it's time to email the list, I'm supposed to send logical patches against the trunk (e.g., patches for refactoring, git_snapshot, ...). For v2 I just used `git diff origin/master` to generate the patch, and it doesn't include the diffstat. Now that I'm splitting into two patches, I'll probably use `git rebase -i origin/master` and just keep track of the changes by hand ;). If there's a better way that I'm overlooking, feel free to point me in the right direction.

> Tests (to be put, I think, in t/t9501-gitweb-standalone-http-status.sh)?
> We could use test_tick() and $test_tick for that (or extract formatted
> committer date from a commit).

I'll try to set that up. Should it be bundled into the git_snapshot patch, or should there be three patches:

1: gitweb: Refactor If-Modified-Since handling 2: gitweb: Add If-Modified-Since tests for git_snapshot 3: gitweb: Add If-Modified-Since support for git_snapshot

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> > @@ -7029,6 +7051,10 @@ sub git_snapshot {
> >  
> >  	my ($name, $prefix) = snapshot_name($project, $hash);
> >  	my $filename = "$name$known_snapshot_formats{$format}{'suffix'}";
> > +
> > +	my %co = parse_commit($hash) or die_error(404, "Unknown commit object");
> > +	die_if_unmodified($co{'committer_epoch'});
> > +
> 
> That unexplainably changes behavior of 'snapshot' action.  Before we
> would accept snapshot of a tree given by its SHA-1, now we do not.
> 
> This might be a good idea from a security point of view wrt. leaking
> information (c.f. "git archive --remote" behavior), but it at least
> needs to be explained in commit message, and perhaps even in a comment
> above this line.
> 
> Alternative solution would be to skip If-Modified-Since handling if we
> request snapshot by tree id:
> 
>   +
>   +	my %co = parse_commit($hash);
>   +	die_if_unmodified($co{'committer_epoch'}) if %co;
>   +

I'm still not understanding the problem here. The following all work in my testing:

  http://.../gitweb.cgi?p=a/.git;a=snapshot;h=1d545cab4a8dc894fae2c2634a74993ea62b054d;sf=tgz
  http://.../gitweb.cgi?p=a/.git;a=snapshot;h=1d5;sf=tgz
  http://.../gitweb.cgi?p=a/.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz
Can you give me an example of a hash that you expect to not work?

Cheers, Trevor

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  2. W. Trevor KingMar 20, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2012
  4. Incremental updates to What's cookingJunio C Hamano, Mar 20, 2012
  5. Isolate If-Modified-Since handling in gitwebW. Trevor King, Mar 21, 2012
  6. Jakub NarebskiMar 21, 2012
  7. W. Trevor KingMar 21, 2012
  8. Jakub NarebskiMar 21, 2012
  9. W. Trevor KingMar 21, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 21, 2012
  11. W. Trevor KingMar 21, 2012
  12. Jakub NarebskiMar 21, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 21, 2012
  14. W. Trevor KingMar 21, 2012
  15. Jakub NarebskiMar 22, 2012
  16. Junio C HamanoMar 21, 2012
  17. Jakub NarebskiMar 22, 2012
  18. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2012
  19. W. Trevor KingMar 26, 2012
  20. 1/3 gitweb: add `status` headers to git_feed() responses.W. Trevor King, Mar 26, 2012
  21. 2/3 gitweb: refactor If-Modified-Since handlingW. Trevor King, Mar 26, 2012
  22. Junio C HamanoMar 26, 2012
  23. W. Trevor KingMar 26, 2012
  24. Junio C HamanoMar 26, 2012
  25. W. Trevor KingMar 26, 2012
  26. Jakub NarebskiMar 27, 2012
  27. W. Trevor KingMar 28, 2012
  28. Jakub NarebskiMar 28, 2012
  29. 0/3 gitweb: refactor If-Modified-Since handlingwking@tremily.us, Mar 28, 2012
  30. W. Trevor KingMar 28, 2012
  31. 1/3 gitweb: add `status` headers to git_feed() responses.wking@tremily.us, Mar 28, 2012
  32. 2/3 gitweb: refactor If-Modified-Since handlingwking@tremily.us, Mar 28, 2012
  33. 3/3 gitweb: add If-Modified-Since handling to git_snapshot().wking@tremily.us, Mar 28, 2012
  34. Jakub NarebskiMar 28, 2012
  35. W. Trevor KingMar 26, 2012
  36. Jakub NarebskiMar 27, 2012
  37. W. Trevor KingMar 28, 2012
  38. 3/3 gitweb: add If-Modified-Since handling to git_snapshot().W. Trevor King, Mar 26, 2012
  39. Jakub NarebskiMar 27, 2012
  40. W. Trevor KingMar 27, 2012
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