gitweb: link to "git describe"'d commits in log messages
Change the log formatting function to know about "git describe" output
such as "
v2.8.0-4-g867ad08", in addition to just plain "
867ad08".
There are still many valid refnames that we don't link to
e.g. v2.10.0-rc1~2^2~1 is also a valid way to refer to
v2.8.0-4-g867ad08, but I'm not supporting that with this commit,
similarly it's trivially possible to create some refnames like
"æ/
var-gf6727b0" or which won't be picked up by this regex.
There's surely room for improvement here, but I just wanted to address
the very common case of sticking "git describe" output into commit
messages without trying to link to all possible refnames, that's going
to be a rather futile exercise given that this is free text, and it
would be prohibitively expensive to look up whether the references in
question exist in our repository.
There was on-list discussion about how we could do better than this
patch. Junio suggested to update parse_commits() to call a new
"gitweb--helper" command which would pass each of the revision
candidates through "rev-parse --verify --quiet". That would cut down
on our false positives (e.g. we'll link to "
deadbeef"), and also allow
us to be more aggressive in selecting candidate revisions.
That may be too expensive to work in practice, or it may
not. Investigating that would be a good follow-up to this patch.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>