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Re: rc3 gitweb is broken, won't deliver snapshots

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 25, 2007, 22:48 UTC
Message-ID
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In-Reply-To
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"Mark Levedahl" <mlevedahl@gmail.com> writes:
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> gitweb in 1.5.3-rc3 fails to deliver snapshots in any useable format
> (bzip2, gz, or zip). Clicking on a link seems to work, but the
> delivered file as stored on my system is empty. No error messages
> appear anywhere I can find. I am hosting gitweb on FC7 using lighttpd,
> if that matters.
>
> The snapshot service at git.kernel.org also seems broken, I don't know
> what gitweb is running there so don't know if the issue is related.
>
> I have fixed this for my use by reverting the following commits
>
> 3473e7df5f8c7f8dc3e2c3f2fdc99a1d1a719c16 gitweb: More detailed error
> messages for snapshot format
> a781785d8f1eb7adf05a24b121104716a086a67a gitweb: Fix support for
> legacy gitweb config for snapshots
> a3c8ab30a54c30a6a434760bedf04548425416ef gitweb: snapshot cleanups &
> support for offering multiple formats
>
> The snapshot problem first appears when a3c8ab30a54 is applied.

True. I wonder if people who submitted patches even tested these things... Sigh.

---
 gitweb/gitweb.perl |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 0acd0ca..b381692 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -4343,7 +4343,7 @@ sub git_snapshot {
 	my $cmd;
 	$filename .= "-$hash$known_snapshot_formats{$format}{'suffix'}";
 	$cmd = "$git_command archive " .
-		"--format=$known_snapshot_formats{$format}{'format'}" .
+		"--format=$known_snapshot_formats{$format}{'format'} " .
 		"--prefix=\'$name\'/ $hash";
 	if (exists $known_snapshot_formats{$format}{'compressor'}) {
 		$cmd .= ' | ' . join ' ', @{$known_snapshot_formats{$format}{'compressor'}};
Previous: Jakub Narebski
Message 5 of 5 in “rc3 gitweb is broken, won't deliver snapshots”
  1. Mark LevedahlJul 25, 2007
  2. gitweb: Fix error in generating snapshotJakub Narebski, Jul 25, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 25, 2007
  4. Jakub NarebskiJul 26, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 25, 2007

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