Image blobs should be printed as images instead of hexdumps

[ape at ape3000.com (Lauri Niskanen)]

On 29/02/12 13:39, Ferry Huberts wrote:
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> On 29-02-12 12:30, Lauri Niskanen wrote:
>> Hi!
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>> Cgit currently prints a hexdump when you look at a image blob (as with
>> any other binary blob). This might be a good way to show generic binary
>> files, but I think images (at least png, jpg) should be shown as images.
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>> Example of the current behaviour:
>> http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/tree/cgit.png
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>> I suggest that instead of the hexdump you would have HTML like this:
>> <img src="http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/plain/cgit.png" />
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>> SVG images are not binaric so I would leave them printed as text.
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>> What do you think about this?
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> This is kind-of solved by my mime patch that's on wip.
> Once Lars merges that into stable, you'll have it
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> http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/commit/?h=wip&id=d01c600c179593a53162a9d4e3040ecfc5078fdc
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>  From what I understood from Lars is that files should always be shown
> within cgit (non-plain) first, because some sites want to disable the
> viewing of plain files.

Thanks, but how does that patch solve my problem? Yeah, we probably need 
the mimetype information so that we know which files are images, but I 
don't see any code that would show images as <img>-tags instead of a 
hexdump.

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Ape <Lauri Niskanen>