Re: [PATCH] gitweb: safely output binary files for 'blob_plain' action

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:

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In other words, something like this:

  (in torvalds/linux-2.6.git/config)

	[gitweb]
        description = "Linus's kernel tree"
        ; defaultblobcharset = "latin1"
        blobmimemapfile = "mime-map"

  (in torvalds/linux-2.6.git/mime-map, first match decides)

	fs/nls/nls_euc-jp.c	text/plain; charset=euc_jp
        *.c	text/plain; charset=utf-8
        *.h     text/plain; charset=utf-8

You could as well just support the mime.types format and load
/etc/mime.types for this kind of mapping (see below for a patch). The
advantage is that this pretty much covers all the MIME types you will
need, the disadvantage is that it's less flexible and the charset part
wouldn't probably fit in nicely.

Ah, I thought Jakub's patch was already taking care of
mime.types but apparently that was not the case.  As you say,
using /etc/mime.types for this is obviously a good point to
start.

We could obviously do both. :-)

The point of my example was about charset part; comparing the
suffix part only is not good enough for .po files, so we should
obviously do both.