[PATCH V2] hgweb: teach archive how to handle file patterns

Angel Ezquerra angel.ezquerra at gmail.com
Fri Feb 8 08:01:27 CST 2013


On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:
> On 02/08/2013 02:48 PM, Angel Ezquerra wrote:
>>
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Angel Ezquerra <angel.ezquerra at gmail.com>
>> # Date 1360141605 -3600
>> # Node ID 766ad3e48bdff8ee2b2a3a9276eff398dcaafa02
>> # Parent  1516d5624a2911fcb90ee051c6dc0679b49aef55
>> hgweb: teach archive how to handle file patterns
>>
>> The archive web command now takes into account the "file" request entry,
>> if one
>> is provided.
>>
>> The provided "file" is processed as a "path" pattern by default, which
>> makes it
>> easy to only archive a certain file or directory. However, it is possible
>> to
>> specify a different type of pattern, such as relglob by specifying it
>> explicitly on the query URL.
>>
>> With this change hgweb can to process requests such as:
>>
>> 1. http://mercurial.selenic.com/hg/tip.zip/mercurial/templates
>>
>>      This will download all files on the mercurial/templates directory as
>> a zip
>>      file
>>
>> 2. http://mercurial.selenic.com/hg/tip.tar.gz/relglob:*.py
>
>
> I think this will be the first time we expose patterns - and thus regexps -
> in hgweb. I'm not sure we want to do that before we have some way of
> processing regexps 'safely'.
>
> /Mads
>

Would it be ok if for now we limit the "patterns" that can be used
this way to glob, relglob, path and relpath?

Angel


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