From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:53:05 GMT
Subject: Re: gitweb / cg-export
Message-ID: <44E2F911.6060002@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ebupuk$dgl$1@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Toby White wrote:
> 
>> I was wondering if a feature like the following would be of
>> use to anyone except me: I'd like to be able to download
>> the full source of a given tree from gitweb.
> [...]
> So you want to have snapshot of a tree. Why not snapshot of a commit, 
> or of a tag?
> 
>> I've quickly hacked gitweb to do this for me - patch below.
>>
>> It adds an extra link to the 'commit' page. Next to the link
>> that would lead you to 'tree', there is 'tar.gz' which simply
>> returns the tar.gz of the same tree.
>>
>> The patch is against the version of gitweb currently in
>> Debian, which is, erm, '264-1', apparently, because that's
>> what I had to hand.
> 
> It is really better to hack git with git. And you can use current gitweb
> with old git (well, not always, as current gitweb requires --full-history
> option to git-rev-list to be available).
> 

How about the below on top of latest git 

-aneesh



diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 37a6284..b9b522a 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ my %actions = (
 	"tag" => \&git_tag,
 	"tags" => \&git_tags,
 	"tree" => \&git_tree,
+	"snapshot" => \&git_snapshot,
 );
 
 $action = 'summary' if (!defined($action));
@@ -1334,6 +1335,7 @@ sub git_shortlog_body {
 		      "<td class=\"link\">" .
 		      $cgi->a({-href => href(action=>"commit", hash=>$commit)}, "commit") . " | " .
 		      $cgi->a({-href => href(action=>"commitdiff", hash=>$commit)}, "commitdiff") .
+		      " | " .$cgi->a({-href => "$my_uri/$project.tar.gz?" . esc_param("p=$project;a=snapshot;h=$commit")}, "snapshot") .
 		      "</td>\n" .
 		      "</tr>\n";
 	}
@@ -2097,6 +2099,21 @@ sub git_tree {
 	git_footer_html();
 }
 
+sub git_snapshot {
+	if (!defined $hash) {
+		$hash = git_get_head_hash($project);
+	}
+	print $cgi->header(-type=>'application/x-tar',
+			  -Content-Encoding=>'x-gzip', -status=> '200 OK');
+	open my $fd, "-|", "$GIT tar-tree $hash $project | gzip -c9" or die_error(undef, "Execute git-tar-tree failed.");
+	binmode STDOUT, ':raw';
+	print <$fd>;
+	binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'; # as set at the beginning of gitweb.cgi
+	close $fd;
+
+
+}
+
 sub git_log {
 	my $head = git_get_head_hash($project);
 	if (!defined $hash) {