Re: gitweb / cg-export

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Toby White wrote:

> I was wondering if a feature like the following would be of
> use to anyone except me: I'd like to be able to download
> the full source of a given tree from gitweb.
[...]
So you want to have snapshot of a tree. Why not snapshot of a commit, 
or of a tag?

> I've quickly hacked gitweb to do this for me - patch below.
> 
> It adds an extra link to the 'commit' page. Next to the link
> that would lead you to 'tree', there is 'tar.gz' which simply
> returns the tar.gz of the same tree.
> 
> The patch is against the version of gitweb currently in
> Debian, which is, erm, '264-1', apparently, because that's
> what I had to hand.

It is really better to hack git with git. And you can use current gitweb
with old git (well, not always, as current gitweb requires --full-history
option to git-rev-list to be available).
 
> Anyway. I'm no git expert so perhaps this is a really bad
> idea, but I find it useful.

It is usefull idea, as it was implemented independently by Sven Verdoolaege
in http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=111909432415478&w=2 directly in
gitweb, and by Sham Chukoury in gitweb-xmms2 using snapshot.cgi in Python
in "Snapshot links support" commit
http://git.xmms.se/?p=gitweb-xmms2.git;a=commit;h=3d0284bb784041907de33df5cff8449f8aeb072e
and "Add xmms2 project's snapshot.cgi" commit
http://git.xmms.se/?p=gitweb-xmms2.git;a=commit;h=3d0284bb784041907de33df5cff8449f8aeb072e

I have planned to add snapshot support, see "[RFC] gitweb wishlist and TODO
list" thread in mailing list archives, check
   http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitCommunity
for list, but I was planning to do some refactoring, including 
<td class="link"> links refactoring (that is where snapshot links would be
added).

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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