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Re: [PATCH] gitweb: allow extra breadcrumbs to prefix the trail

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 3, 2013, 21:59 UTC
Message-ID
<20130703215930.GT408@google.com>
In-Reply-To
<E1Uu3IT-0008U1-3c@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
(cc-ing Jakub, gitweb wrangler)
Tony Finch wrote:
> There are often parent pages logically above the gitweb projects
> list, e.g. home pages of the organization and department that host
> the gitweb server. This change allows you to include links to those
> pages in gitweb's breadcrumb trail.
Neat.
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> Signed-off-by: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
> ---
>  Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt | 8 ++++++++
>  gitweb/gitweb.perl            | 6 ++++++
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
> index ea0526e..4579578 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
> @@ -339,6 +339,14 @@ $home_link_str::
>  	as this link leads to the list of projects.  Other popular choice it to
>  	set it to the name of site.
>  
> +@extra_breadcrumbs::
> +	Additional links to be added to the start of the breadcrumb trail,
> +	that are logically "above" the gitweb projects list. For example,
> +	links to the organization and department which host the gitweb
> +	server. Each element of the list is a reference to an array,
> +	in which element 0 is the link text and element 1 is the
> +	target URL.
Is arbitrary HTML permitted in the link text?

I think it makes sense to permit it for consistency with $home_link_str, but it might be worth mentioning in the manpage so the administrator knows not to set it to something user-controlled --- e.g.:

	The link text can contain arbitrary HTML --- to escape link
	text generated programatically, use esc_html($text).
For what it's worth, with or without such a change,
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
(Patch left unsnipped for reference.)
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> +
>  $logo_url::
>  $logo_label::
>  	URI and label (title) for the Git logo link (or your site logo,
> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> index 8d69ada..436f17a 100755
> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> @@ -85,6 +85,9 @@ our $project_maxdepth = "++GITWEB_PROJECT_MAXDEPTH++";
>  # string of the home link on top of all pages
>  our $home_link_str = "++GITWEB_HOME_LINK_STR++";
>  
> +# extra breadcrumbs preceding the home link
> +our @extra_breadcrumbs = ();
> +
>  # name of your site or organization to appear in page titles
>  # replace this with something more descriptive for clearer bookmarks
>  our $site_name = "++GITWEB_SITENAME++"
> @@ -3982,6 +3985,9 @@ sub print_nav_breadcrumbs_path {
>  sub print_nav_breadcrumbs {
>  	my %opts = @_;
>  
> +	for my $crumb (@extra_breadcrumbs) {
> +		print $cgi->a({-href => esc_url($crumb->[1])}, $crumb->[0]) . " / ";
> +	}
>  	print $cgi->a({-href => esc_url($home_link)}, $home_link_str) . " / ";
>  	if (defined $project) {
>  		my @dirname = split '/', $project;
> -- 
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Message 3 of 15 in “gitweb: allow extra breadcrumbs to prefix the trail”
  1. gitweb: allow extra breadcrumbs to prefix the trailTony Finch, Jul 2, 2013
  2. gitweb: allow extra breadcrumbs to prefix the trailTony Finch, Jul 2, 2013
  3. Jonathan NiederJul 3, 2013
  4. Jakub NarębskiJul 3, 2013
  5. Tony FinchJul 4, 2013
  6. Jakub NarębskiJul 4, 2013
  7. Tony FinchJul 4, 2013
  8. Jakub NarębskiJul 4, 2013
  9. Tony FinchJul 4, 2013
  10. Jakub NarębskiJul 4, 2013
  11. Tony FinchJul 4, 2013
  12. Jakub NarębskiJul 4, 2013
  13. gitweb: allow extra breadcrumbs to prefix the trailTony Finch, Jul 4, 2013
  14. Jakub NarębskiJul 4, 2013
  15. Jonathan NiederJul 7, 2013

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