Re: [PATCH] gitweb.cgi: Teach tree->raw to not require the hash of the blob

Luben Tuikov [off-list ref] writes:

Teach tree->raw to not require the hash of the blob, but to
figure it out from the file name.  This allows to externally
link to files into the repository, such that the hash is not
required.  I.e. the file obtained would be as of the HEAD
commit.

In contrast tree->blob for binary files passes the hash, as
does tree->blob->plain for "text/*" files.

Signed-off-by: Luben Tuikov <redacted>
---
 gitweb/gitweb.cgi |   20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

This has exactly the same line number problem.

@@ -1678,8 +1690,7 @@ sub git_tree {
 			      $cgi->a({-href => "$my_uri?" . esc...
 #			      " | " . $cgi->a({-href => "$my_uri...
 			      " | " . $cgi->a({-href => "$my_uri...
-			      " | " . $cgi->a({-href => "$my_uri...
+			      " | " . $cgi->a({-href => "$my_uri...
 			      "</td>\n";
 		} elsif ($t_type eq "tree") {
 			print "<td class=\"list\">" .

You are removing one line and adding one line, so the number of
old and new lines better match.

Hand-applied, tried, got confused and dropped.

I think _allowing_ to accept filename not hash is a sane change,
and would be useful if you want to allow linking to always the
HEAD version from external sites, but I do not think listing the
raw link in the tree view without the hash is a good idea.  It
makes things quite confusing that "blob" link in its
neighbourhood gives the blob from that specific version, but
"raw" gives the version from HEAD, even when you are browsing
something other than HEAD.

BTW, can somebody volunteer to be a gitweb/ "subsystem
maintainer"?