From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:45:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add "raw" output option to blobs in "tree" view format
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In-Reply-To: <20060707164152.86022.qmail@web31805.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> writes:

> That is, the user would still have to click through "tree->blob->plain"
> to download a "text/*" file, as opposed to just "tree->raw".
>
> What this patch allows, is that the user be able to simply download the file,
> right from "tree" view, regardless of the type of file. (I.e. the type of
> file as decided by the _user_, not gitweb.cgi.)

OK, I see what you are aiming at.

I have been irritated by the current git_blob that always seems
to do "cat -n" even for non text/* files, but you are tackling
the opposite problem.