Re: Possible but in gitweb

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

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?

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

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

P.S. Please reply also to git mailing list...
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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