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[PATCH] gitweb: Add support for cloneurl.

From
Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 15, 2006, 14:28 UTC
Message-ID
<44E1DA0C.80602@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<ebrpfs$grn$1@sea.gmane.org>
Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=PolicyKit.git;a=summary
> 
> This shows it in the URL part of each project.
> -aneesh

The below patch implements the same. I am not sure whether the approach is the right one. To see the results you can see

http://git.openssi.org/~kvaneesh/gitweb.cgi
-aneesh
>From 87503bfc92210ab6791f7a15eba72682d60f74ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Subject: [PATCH] gitweb: Add support for cloneurl.

A new file cloneurl is added below .git directory for each project. The contents of the file is displayed by gitweb as the url which need to be used for git clone.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
---
 gitweb/gitweb.perl |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index b5b89de..869c53e 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -503,6 +503,16 @@ sub git_get_project_description {
 	return $descr;
 }
 
+sub git_get_project_cloneurl {
+	my $path = shift;
+
+	open my $fd, "$projectroot/$path/cloneurl" or return undef;
+	my $descr = <$fd>;
+	close $fd;
+	chomp $descr;
+	return $descr;
+}
+
 sub git_get_projects_list {
 	my @list;
 
@@ -1655,6 +1665,7 @@ sub git_project_list {
 sub git_summary {
 	my $descr = git_get_project_description($project) || "none";
 	my $head = git_get_head_hash($project);
+	my $cloneurl = git_get_project_cloneurl($project) || "none";
 	my %co = parse_commit($head);
 	my %cd = parse_date($co{'committer_epoch'}, $co{'committer_tz'});
 
@@ -1669,6 +1680,7 @@ sub git_summary {
 	      "<tr><td>description</td><td>" . esc_html($descr) . "</td></tr>\n" .
 	      "<tr><td>owner</td><td>$owner</td></tr>\n" .
 	      "<tr><td>last change</td><td>$cd{'rfc2822'}</td></tr>\n" .
+	      "<tr><td>URL</td><td>$cloneurl</td></tr>\n" .
 	      "</table>\n";
 
 	open my $fd, "-|", $GIT, "rev-list", "--max-count=17", git_get_head_hash($project)
-- 
1.4.2.rc1.g83e1-dirty
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  1. Aneesh Kumar K.VAug 15, 2006
  2. gitweb: Add support for cloneurl.Aneesh Kumar K.V, Aug 15, 2006
  3. Jon LoeligerAug 15, 2006
  4. gitweb: Support multiple clone urlsAneesh Kumar K.V, Aug 15, 2006

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