Re: [PATCH] gitweb: make HTML links out of http/https URLs in changelogs

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Kir Kolyshkin wrote:

> It is a common practice to put links to bugzillas, mailing lists, etc. 
> in git log entries. The fact that gitweb doesn't make HTML links out of 
> that URLs makes following those URLs inconvenient. This patch fixes that 
> problem, trying to address cases when URL is enclosed in round or square 
> brackets.

Preliminary committags support was sent as an RFC patch on git mailing list
once. Hyperlinking plain text http, https, ftp, ftps links etc. is a special
case of committag. That wha is implemented now, namely hyperlinking
commitsha to commit view is also special case of comittag.

And I plan to implement it, only later. But you are welcome to do it
instead.

gitweb-xmms2 http://git.xmms.se/?p=gitweb-xmms2.git has xmms2 related
committags support (links to xmms2 Mantis bugtracker from BUG(n) and
FEATURE(n))
 
> Slightly tested on http://git.openvz.org/. Applicable to git-1.4.4.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kir@openvz.org>
> ---
>  gitweb/gitweb.perl |    2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> --- git-1.4.4/gitweb/gitweb.perl      2006-11-15 08:22:27.000000000 +0100
> +++ git-1.4.4-my/gitweb/gitweb.perl   2006-11-21 22:49:14.000000000 +0100
> @@ -828,6 +828,8 @@

Could you please send patches created by git tools, namely git-format-patch,
or if you really need to send GNU diff patches, use -p option? It really
helps in patch review.

>                       $line =~ s/$hash_text/$link/;
>               }
>       }
> +     # make HTML links out of http(s) URLs
> +     $line =~ s/(http[s]?:\/\/[^[:space:]\]\)]+)/<a href="\1">\1<\/a>/g;
>       return $line;
>  }

Wont work correctly if commit message has sha1 of commit in it; it would be
changed to 
 <a href="$my_uri?p=$project;a=commit;h=$hash_text" class="text">$hash_text</a>
then the code you added will add hyperlink in place of href value (!).
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git