Re: Possible but in gitweb

From: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 18, 2006, 17:42 UTC
Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30611180942p548a92d1ufc9e0dcfabedb59@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ejng62$k2m$1@sea.gmane.org>

On 11/18/06, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I'm playing with a repo hosted by repos.os.cz and I think I faced a
> > bug (Pasky confirmed that this should be reported here as a bug).
> >
> > My repo has two branches,
> > * master
> >   html
> >
> > Master contains a text file while html contains his conversion in html
> > done via asciidoc.
> >
> > I need to URLs that point to the top of the branches in order to have
> > an easy way for linking the documentation to external portals.
> >
> > This link points to HEAD, so top of master:
> > http://repo.or.cz/w/LinuxKernelDevelopmentProcess.git?a=blob_plain;f=LinuxKernelDevelopmentProcess;hb=HEAD
> >
> > Browsing the repo I reach the following URL
> > http://repo.or.cz/w/LinuxKernelDevelopmentProcess.git?a=blob;f=LinuxKernelDevelopmentProcess.html;hb=HEAD
> > that is not accessible.
> Because HEAD is master, not html, and there us no such file in master branch?

Fair enoough but then there should be no link in the web interface. That sounds like a bug in the interface.

> But all the following links
>  http://repo.or.cz/w/LinuxKernelDevelopmentProcess.git?a=blob;f=LinuxKernelDevelopmentProcess.html;hb=html
>

Yeah, but I would like to see the interpreted page.

http://repo.or.cz/w/LinuxKernelDevelopmentProcess.git?a=blob;f=LinuxKernelDevelopmentProcess;hb=master

That is master not html
  http://repo.or.cz/w/LinuxKernelDevelopmentProcess.git?a=blob;f=LinuxKernelDevelopmentProcess;hb=HEAD

> works

Same as above.

> You can use
>  http://repo.or.cz/w/LinuxKernelDevelopmentProcess.git/html:/LinuxKernelDevelopmentProcess.html

Yes, thanks! Is it reachable via the web interface? Is it always pointing to the top of the repo?

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> or
>  http://repo.or.cz/w/LinuxKernelDevelopmentProcess.git/html:LinuxKernelDevelopmentProcess.html
> (and there is remote possibility that links would work, too)
>
> > Looks like is not possible to obtain a link to the top of a branch
> > different from master.
>
> It is possible, but you must specify the branch.

Well, I don't see how it is possible just browsing with gitweb. Am I wrong?

> P.S. Please reply also to git mailing list...

Ciao,

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Paolo
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