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Re: [PATCHv2] Add options to specify snapshot file name, prefix

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TGThomas Guyot-Sionnest <dermoth@aei.ca>
Date
Nov 5, 2011, 00:52 UTC
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On 11-11-04 12:10 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <dermoth@aei.ca> writes:
> 
>> commit b629275 implemented "smart" snapshot names and prefixes. I have
>> scripts that used to rely on the old behaviour which allowed in some
>> cases to have fixed prefix, and would require modifications to work with
>> newer Gitweb.
> 
> If scripts use 'wget' or 'curl' you can always change the name of
> saved file:
> 
>   wget -O <file> ...
>   curl -o <file> ...
> 
> If downloaded snapshot is compressed tarfile, you can use
> --strip-components=1 to strip prefix.

I actually didn't care about the filename (in my script I pipe straight to tar, and in a python app I have that will use snapshots I have I planned on "opening" the url as a stream directly with the tarfile lib); it was just as easy to add both anyway.

I thought I had looked up the tar man page for an option that strips the path, clearly I missed that one. :)

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>> This patch adds two parameters for overriding the snapshot name and
>> prefix, sn and sp respectively. For example, to get a snapshot
>> named "myproject.[suffix]" with no prefix one can add this query string:
>>   ?sn=myproject;sp=
> 
> Would you need support for expandable parameters in both (a la
> 'action' feature)?

I'm not sure what you mean... I never tinkered with gitweb.pl directly before.

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> [...] 
>> @@ -6684,11 +6686,19 @@ sub git_snapshot {
>>  	}
>>  
>>  	my ($name, $prefix) = snapshot_name($project, $hash);
>> +	if (defined($input_params{'snapshot_name'})) {
>> +		$name = $input_params{'snapshot_name'};
>> +	}
>> +	if (defined($input_params{'snapshot_prefix'})) {
>> +		$prefix = $input_params{'snapshot_prefix'};
>> +	} else {
>> +		$prefix .= '/';
>> +	}
>>  	my $filename = "$name$known_snapshot_formats{$format}{'suffix'}";
>>  	my $cmd = quote_command(
>>  		git_cmd(), 'archive',
>>  		"--format=$known_snapshot_formats{$format}{'format'}",
>> -		"--prefix=$prefix/", $hash);
>> +		"--prefix=$prefix", $hash);
>>  	if (exists $known_snapshot_formats{$format}{'compressor'}) {
>>  		$cmd .= ' | ' . quote_command(@{$known_snapshot_formats{$format}{'compressor'}});
>>  	}
> 
> I wonder if you really want to allow prefix which do not end in '/'

I kind of agree, yet considering its lack of "front-end" visibility it made me think of plumbing commands like git-checkout-index (which I use sometimes to replace the "missing" git export) where prefix is nothing more than an appended string to file names.

And now I remember, this is also exactly how git-archive works.
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> (which would be suprising, isn't it), or just allow empty prefix too.
>
>
> For example
> 
>   @@ -6684,11 +6686,19 @@ sub git_snapshot {
>    	}
>    
>    	my ($name, $prefix) = snapshot_name($project, $hash);
>   +	if (defined($input_params{'snapshot_name'})) {
>   +		$name = $input_params{'snapshot_name'};
>   +	}
>   +	if (defined($input_params{'snapshot_prefix'})) {
>   +		$prefix = $input_params{'snapshot_prefix'};
>   +	}
>    	my $filename = "$name$known_snapshot_formats{$format}{'suffix'}";
>    	my $cmd = quote_command(
>    		git_cmd(), 'archive',
>    		"--format=$known_snapshot_formats{$format}{'format'}",
>   -		"--prefix=$prefix/", $hash);
>   +		($prefix eq "" ? () : "--prefix=$prefix"), $hash);
>    	if (exists $known_snapshot_formats{$format}{'compressor'}) {
>    		$cmd .= ' | ' . quote_command(@{$known_snapshot_formats{$format}{'compressor'}});
>    	}
> 
You still have to add the /, i.e.:
>   +		($prefix eq "" ? () : "--prefix=$prefix/"), $hash);

And personally, I think git-archive is the one that should add a / - it has much more visibility to end-users than this obscure query-string.

- -- 
Thomas
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