Image blobs should be printed as images instead of hexdumps

[mailings at hupie.com (Ferry Huberts)]

On 01-03-12 16:20, Lauri Niskanen wrote:
> On 01/03/12 15:34, Ferry Huberts wrote:
>  > On 01-03-12 10:56, Lauri Niskanen wrote:
>  >> On 29/02/12 13:39, Ferry Huberts wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>> On 29-02-12 12:30, Lauri Niskanen wrote:
>  >>>> Hi!
>  >>>>
>  >>>> 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.
>  >>>>
>  >>>> Example of the current behaviour:
>  >>>> http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/tree/cgit.png
>  >>>>
>  >>>> I suggest that instead of the hexdump you would have HTML like this:
>  >>>> <img src="http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/plain/cgit.png" />
>  >>>>
>  >>>> SVG images are not binaric so I would leave them printed as text.
>  >>>>
>  >>>> What do you think about this?
>  >>>>
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>> This is kind-of solved by my mime patch that's on wip.
>  >>> Once Lars merges that into stable, you'll have it
>  >>>
>  >>>
> http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/commit/?h=wip&id=d01c600c179593a53162a9d4e3040ecfc5078fdc
>
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>> 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.
>  >>
>  >
>  >
>  > from the page you mention, you can click the 'plain' link (if it's
>  > enabled).
>  >
>  > That will send the file to you with the most appropriate mime-type.
>
> Yeah. I've been using that, and it works just fine. But I really wanted
> something like this:
> http://x.ape3000.com/projects/cgit/cgit.png.htm
>
> instead of this:
> http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/tree/cgit.png
>
> There would be two main benefits from this. Firstly, it would be easier
> and faster to look at the actual image. Secondly, there would be a
> reason for not generating and showing a hexdump. The hexdump for an
> image seems to be mostly useless, and most people want to see the image
> when they click the file on the tree view.
>
> Just to give more examples, I think GitHub has managed to solve this
> quite nicely:
> https://github.com/metajack/cgit/blob/master/cgit.png
>


patches welcome ;-)

-- 
Ferry Huberts