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Re: [PATCH] gitweb: snapshot cleanups & support for offering multiple formats

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LTLuben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Date
Jul 19, 2007, 03:30 UTC
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--- Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 17 July 2007, Matt McCutchen napisał:
> > ...
> >> Alert for gitweb site administrators: This patch changes the format of
> >> $feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} in gitweb_config.perl from a list of
> >> three pieces of information about a single format to a list of one or
> >> more formats you wish to offer from the set ('tgz', 'tbz2', 'zip').
> >> Update your gitweb_config.perl appropriately.  The preferred names for
> >> gitweb.snapshot in repository configuration have also changed from
> >> 'gzip' and 'bzip2' to 'tgz' and 'tbz2', but the old names are still
> >> recognized for compatibility.
> >
> > This alert/warning should probably be put in RelNotes for when it would
> > be in git.git
> 
> Does anybody else worry about the backward imcompatibility, I
> wonder...  List?

I wouldn't mind an improvement in the snapshot area of gitweb. I wasn't really happy with the snapshot feature as it was originally implemented, as it would generate a tar file with ".tar.bz2" name extension, but the file was NOT bz2, and I had to always manually rename, bz2, and rename back.

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> I really hate to having to say something like that in the
> RelNotes.  I do not think this is a good enough reason to break
> existing configurations; I would not want to be defending that
> change.
> 
> >> I thought of another incompatibility: previously bookmarked snapshot
> >> URLs will no longer work because they lack the new "sf" parameter.  I
> >> don't care about this; do any of you?
> >
> > I think either having good error message, or using first format avaiable
> > would be good enough.
> 
> I doubt bookmarked snapshot URL would make sense to begin with,
> so this would be Ok.
> 
> I am wondering if something like this patch (totally untested,
> mind you) to convert the old style %feature in configuration at
> the site at runtime would be sufficient.

"totally untested" is a problem. Anything going into gitweb for public consumption (master branch, next ok), should be completely and exhaustively tested.

   Luben
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> 
> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> index f17c983..cdec4d0 100755
> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> @@ -236,9 +236,39 @@ our %feature = (
>  		'default' => [0]},
>  );
>  
> +# Functions to convert values from older gitweb configuration
> +# into the current data format
> +sub gitweb_bc_feature_snapshot {
> +	my $def = $feature{'snapshot'}{'default'};
> +	# Older definition was to have either undef (to disable), or
> +	# a three-element array whose first element was content encoding
> +	# without leading "application/".
> +	return if (ref $def ne 'ARRAY');
> +	if (!defined $def->[0] && @$def == 1) {
> +		# Disabled -- the new way to spell it is to have an empty
> +		# arrayref.
> +		$feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = [];
> +		return;
> +	}
> +	return if (@$def != 3);
> +	for ($def->[0]) {
> +		if (/x-gzip/) {
> +			$feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = ['tgz'];
> +		}
> +		if (/x-bz2/) {
> +			$feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = ['tbz2'];
> +		}
> +		if (/x-zip/) {
> +			$feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = ['zip'];
> +		}
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  sub gitweb_check_feature {
>  	my ($name) = @_;
>  	return unless exists $feature{$name};
> +	eval "gitweb_bc_feature_$name()";
> +
>  	my ($sub, $override, @defaults) = (
>  		$feature{$name}{'sub'},
>  		$feature{$name}{'override'},
> 
> 
Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Jakub Narebski
Message 12 of 35 in “gitweb: snapshot cleanups & support for offering multiple formats”
  1. gitweb: snapshot cleanups & support for offering multiple formatsMatt McCutchen, Jun 28, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 7, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2007
  4. Jakub NarebskiJul 11, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 11, 2007
  6. Matt McCutchenJul 12, 2007
  7. Jakub NarebskiJul 12, 2007
  8. Matt McCutchenJul 17, 2007
  9. gitweb: snapshot cleanups & support for offering multiple formatsMatt McCutchen, Jul 17, 2007
  10. Jakub NarebskiJul 18, 2007
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 19, 2007
  12. Luben TuikovJul 19, 2007
  13. Jakub NarebskiJul 19, 2007
  14. Luben TuikovJul 19, 2007
  15. gitweb: Enable transparent compression form HTTP outputJakub Narebski, Jul 25, 2007
  16. Petr BaudisAug 25, 2007
  17. Jakub NarebskiAug 25, 2007
  18. Petr BaudisAug 25, 2007
  19. Jakub NarebskiAug 27, 2007
  20. Jakub NarebskiJul 19, 2007
  21. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2007
  22. Jakub NarebskiJul 19, 2007
  23. gitweb: snapshot cleanups & support for offering multiple formatsJakub Narebski, Jul 21, 2007
  24. Junio C HamanoJul 22, 2007
  25. Matt McCutchenJul 22, 2007
  26. gitweb: Fix support for legacy gitweb config for snapshotsJakub Narebski, Jul 22, 2007
  27. Matt McCutchenJul 22, 2007
  28. Junio C HamanoJul 22, 2007
  29. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2007
  30. Matt McCutchenJul 9, 2007
  31. gitweb: snapshot cleanups & support for offering multiple formatsMatt McCutchen, Jul 9, 2007
  32. Jakub NarebskiJul 10, 2007
  33. Junio C HamanoJul 9, 2007
  34. gitweb: snapshot cleanups & support for offering multiple formatsMatt McCutchen, Jul 10, 2007
  35. gitweb: snapshot cleanups & support for offering multiple formatsMatt McCutchen, Jul 10, 2007

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