Gitweb: Provide Git links in project list?

Gitweb: Provide Git links in project list?

[Robert Richter]

The Gitweb on git.kernel.org povides links to the Git repository for
each project (git <git://...>). However, I did not find this feature
in the current implementation of git_project_list_body(). Does
somebody know if there is a patch available for this and if this could
be added to gitweb?

Thanks,

-Robert

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Re: Gitweb: Provide Git links in project list?

[Fredrik Skolmli]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:57:43PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:

> The Gitweb on git.kernel.org povides links to the Git repository for
> each project (git <git://...>). However, I did not find this feature
> in the current implementation of git_project_list_body(). Does
> somebody know if there is a patch available for this and if this could
> be added to gitweb?

Is putting the address in .git/cloneurl giving the behaviour you're looking for?

- F

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Regards,
Fredrik Skolmli

Re: Gitweb: Provide Git links in project list?

[Robert Richter]

On 30.07.08 15:02:57, Fredrik Skolmli wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:57:43PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> 
> > The Gitweb on git.kernel.org povides links to the Git repository for
> > each project (git <git://...>). However, I did not find this feature
> > in the current implementation of git_project_list_body(). Does
> > somebody know if there is a patch available for this and if this could
> > be added to gitweb?
> 
> Is putting the address in .git/cloneurl giving the behaviour you're looking for?

Yes, I did change this and in the project summary I get "URL git://...".

That I mean is the main page, that lists the projects. I only have:

... summary | shortlog | log | tree

At git.kernel.org there is additional '... | git' with a link to the
Git repository.

The current source of gitweb seems not to provide this.

-Robert

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email: robert.richter@amd.com

Re: Gitweb: Provide Git links in project list?

[Fredrik Skolmli]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 03:13:57PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:

> At git.kernel.org there is additional '... | git' with a link to the
> Git repository.
 
Ah, sorry. I had a look before sending the mail, but apparently missed that
little detail.

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Regards,
Fredrik Skolmli

Re: Gitweb: Provide Git links in project list?

[Bert Wesarg]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 15:13, Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> wrote:
> On 30.07.08 15:02:57, Fredrik Skolmli wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:57:43PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
>>
>> > The Gitweb on git.kernel.org povides links to the Git repository for
>> > each project (git <git://...>). However, I did not find this feature
>> > in the current implementation of git_project_list_body(). Does
>> > somebody know if there is a patch available for this and if this could
>> > be added to gitweb?
>>
>> Is putting the address in .git/cloneurl giving the behaviour you're looking for?
>
> Yes, I did change this and in the project summary I get "URL git://...".
>
> That I mean is the main page, that lists the projects. I only have:
>
> ... summary | shortlog | log | tree
>
> At git.kernel.org there is additional '... | git' with a link to the
> Git repository.
>
> The current source of gitweb seems not to provide this.

Look here for all notible forks of gitweb:

  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/Gitweb

Bert
>
> -Robert
>
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Re: Gitweb: Provide Git links in project list?

[Robert Richter]

On 30.07.08 16:55:40, Bert Wesarg wrote:
> > The current source of gitweb seems not to provide this.
> 
> Look here for all notible forks of gitweb:
> 
>   http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/Gitweb
> 
> Bert

Thanks Bert, it is in the kernel.org repository.

-Robert

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Re: Gitweb: Provide Git links in project list?

[J.H.]

Robert,

That is a kernel.org specific change - if the community at large wants
it I can dig the patch out (I likely didn't do it as it's own patch when
I did it, being young, naive and stupid at the time - I'm now slightly
older and slightly less naive now ;-)

But yeah - if people feel that's interesting I'm happy to rip it out
later today and submit it to the mailing list.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 14:57 +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> The Gitweb on git.kernel.org povides links to the Git repository for
> each project (git <git://...>). However, I did not find this feature
> in the current implementation of git_project_list_body(). Does
> somebody know if there is a patch available for this and if this could
> be added to gitweb?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Robert
> 

Re: Gitweb: Provide Git links in project list?

[Robert Richter]

On 30.07.08 08:49:30, J.H. wrote:
> That is a kernel.org specific change - if the community at large wants
> it I can dig the patch out (I likely didn't do it as it's own patch when
> I did it, being young, naive and stupid at the time - I'm now slightly
> older and slightly less naive now ;-)
> 
> But yeah - if people feel that's interesting I'm happy to rip it out
> later today and submit it to the mailing list.

John, I would like the patch.

Yes, I have seen the commit as well and it is not the only change in
this commit. Also, if I got it right, the repository is not taken from
.git/cloneurl. So, with the current implementation the git url in the
summary page may be different to cloneurl. But this is not a major
issue.

It would be great if you could provide a patch with your changes for
gitweb.

Thanks,

-Robert

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Operating System Research Center
email: robert.richter@amd.com

Re: Gitweb: Provide Git links in project list?

[Boyd Lynn Gerber]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, J.H. wrote:
> That is a kernel.org specific change - if the community at large wants
> it I can dig the patch out (I likely didn't do it as it's own patch when
> I did it, being young, naive and stupid at the time - I'm now slightly
> older and slightly less naive now ;-)
> 
> But yeah - if people feel that's interesting I'm happy to rip it out
> later today and submit it to the mailing list.

I would like to see the patch.  I think it would be good to get it 
included.

Thanks,

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Re: Gitweb: Provide Git links in project list?

[J.H.]

Working on refactoring the patch so that it can go upstream, one of the
things I'm definitely making an assumption about (in my original code)
is that the base url will be uniform for the entire project_list (as it
is on kernel.org).  If that's acceptable I will probably be able to
submit something today, if not I will need to muck about and read out
the url from .git/cloneurl (which would be a rather hefty performance
hit - needing to read that from each repository)

- John

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 18:11 +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> On 30.07.08 08:49:30, J.H. wrote:
> > That is a kernel.org specific change - if the community at large wants
> > it I can dig the patch out (I likely didn't do it as it's own patch when
> > I did it, being young, naive and stupid at the time - I'm now slightly
> > older and slightly less naive now ;-)
> > 
> > But yeah - if people feel that's interesting I'm happy to rip it out
> > later today and submit it to the mailing list.
> 
> John, I would like the patch.
> 
> Yes, I have seen the commit as well and it is not the only change in
> this commit. Also, if I got it right, the repository is not taken from
> .git/cloneurl. So, with the current implementation the git url in the
> summary page may be different to cloneurl. But this is not a major
> issue.
> 
> It would be great if you could provide a patch with your changes for
> gitweb.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Robert
> 

[PATCH] Gitweb: Provide Git links in project list

[Robert Richter]

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
---
 gitweb/gitweb.perl |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 90cd99b..6d9b7aa 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -3558,6 +3558,9 @@ sub fill_project_list_info {
 		if (!defined $pr->{'owner'}) {
 			$pr->{'owner'} = git_get_project_owner("$pr->{'path'}") || "";
 		}
+		if (!defined $pr->{'url_link'}) {
+			$pr->{'url_link'} = (git_get_project_url_list("$pr->{'path'}"))[0] || "";
+		}
 		if ($check_forks) {
 			my $pname = $pr->{'path'};
 			if (($pname =~ s/\.git$//) &&
@@ -3661,6 +3664,7 @@ sub git_project_list_body {
 		      $cgi->a({-href => href(project=>$pr->{'path'}, action=>"shortlog")}, "shortlog") . " | " .
 		      $cgi->a({-href => href(project=>$pr->{'path'}, action=>"log")}, "log") . " | " .
 		      $cgi->a({-href => href(project=>$pr->{'path'}, action=>"tree")}, "tree") .
+		      ($pr->{'url_link'} ? " | " . $cgi->a({-href => $pr->{'url_link'}}, "git") : '') .
 		      ($pr->{'forks'} ? " | " . $cgi->a({-href => href(project=>$pr->{'path'}, action=>"forks")}, "forks") : '') .
 		      "</td>\n" .
 		      "</tr>\n";
-- 
1.5.5.4

Re: Gitweb: Provide Git links in project list?

[Robert Richter]

On 03.08.08 13:53:13, J.H. wrote:
> Working on refactoring the patch so that it can go upstream, one of the
> things I'm definitely making an assumption about (in my original code)
> is that the base url will be uniform for the entire project_list (as it
> is on kernel.org).  If that's acceptable I will probably be able to
> submit something today, if not I will need to muck about and read out
> the url from .git/cloneurl (which would be a rather hefty performance
> hit - needing to read that from each repository)

John,

I just sent out a patch that implements this using cloneurl. It seemed
small and easy to implement and so I just made the change myself.

Thank you anyway.

-Robert

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email: robert.richter@amd.com

Re: Gitweb: Provide Git links in project list?

[J.H.]

Robert,

Noticed, but while I agree cloneurl is good - I think it kind of defeats
the purpose of what I was originally intending with the 'git' link.
I've gone back in to understand cloneurl better and I genuinely think
this is the wrong approach (or at least not what was originally intended
with the 'git' link as I envisioned it).

The git link was always meant / intended to be a link to acquire the git
repository directly, and be independent of what is actually present in
the cloneurl file, specifically I wanted it to be a (1) git url
(git://<hostname>/<path>) so that it took advantage of git specifically
vs. accidentally giving you something with ssh or http. and (2) was
uniform and did *not* depend on something in the repository as with
large set of repositories, kernel.org, there is no way we can police
this and we explicitly do not want to have a script that automatically
adds this or what not.

I have two other concerns with the patch your proposing

(1) it's on by default, and it seems that there are a number of sites
that don't actually want this functionality, making it a configurable
option would seem prudent in that case

(2) ignoring my comments on why I think using cloneurl for a large site
is bad (after I looked into it), blindly on taking the first option in
the file may lead to the display of unexpected or unintended URLs.

That said, it's probably worth merging the two patches (since I'm
already there with the configuration options, etc) that way people can
get either functionality should they choose.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 12:12 +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> On 03.08.08 13:53:13, J.H. wrote:
> > Working on refactoring the patch so that it can go upstream, one of the
> > things I'm definitely making an assumption about (in my original code)
> > is that the base url will be uniform for the entire project_list (as it
> > is on kernel.org).  If that's acceptable I will probably be able to
> > submit something today, if not I will need to muck about and read out
> > the url from .git/cloneurl (which would be a rather hefty performance
> > hit - needing to read that from each repository)
> 
> John,
> 
> I just sent out a patch that implements this using cloneurl. It seemed
> small and easy to implement and so I just made the change myself.
> 
> Thank you anyway.
> 
> -Robert
> 

Re: Gitweb: Provide Git links in project list?

[Petr Baudis]

  Hi,

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 09:26:54AM -0700, J.H. wrote:
> The git link was always meant / intended to be a link to acquire the git
> repository directly, and be independent of what is actually present in
> the cloneurl file, specifically I wanted it to be a (1) git url
> (git://<hostname>/<path>) so that it took advantage of git specifically
> vs. accidentally giving you something with ssh or http.

  we could grep the cloneurl.

  The thing is, some sites like repo.or.cz don't use per-project
cloneurl but do specify pull URLs by @git_base_url_list and this is
introducing unnecessary redundancy.

> and (2) was
> uniform and did *not* depend on something in the repository as with
> large set of repositories, kernel.org, there is no way we can police
> this and we explicitly do not want to have a script that automatically
> adds this or what not.

  Then why do you allow cloneurl in the repositories at all, if you
think the links won't be trustworthy? What is the fundamental difference
between what you show on the project list page and the URLs in the
project summary page?

> I have two other concerns with the patch your proposing
> 
> (1) it's on by default, and it seems that there are a number of sites
> that don't actually want this functionality, making it a configurable
> option would seem prudent in that case

  I actually plan to remove the 'log' link from the project list; I
really wonder about the practicality of the 'git' link... but if there
were any widely used browser integrations (like firing up git-gui when
clicking on a git:// link), I *would* definitely see it more useful than
the 'log' link and add it to repo.or.cz. But I have never heard about
anyone actually doing this (but I think it might make a lot of sense;
thinking about it, I might try to patch msysgit to do this on Windows,
this would be nifty for my current dayjob project :).

> That said, it's probably worth merging the two patches (since I'm
> already there with the configuration options, etc) that way people can
> get either functionality should they choose.

  Configuration options are expensive on human users. Please let's not
add more too carelessly.

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