Re: searching for git commit hash

On 2 September 2012 13:54, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 04:34:27PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> > Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org> writes:
>> >> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> >>> I don't believe gitweb supports searching. You'll need to pick another
>> >>> hash and then copy/paste on the URL.
>> >
>> >> Well there is a "search" box in the upper right corner, but I think it
>> >> can only search for text, not commit hashes.
>> >
>> > I have a private page containing a text box I can type the hash into.
>> > This is very fast and it works with hash prefixes too, which I bet
>> > google would not.
>> >
>> >     <form action="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb"
>> >      method="get" id="goto-commit-id">
>> >      <input type="hidden" name="p" value="postgresql.git" />
>> >      <input type="hidden" name="a" value="commitdiff" />
>> >      Git Commit Hash <input type="text" name="h" size="60" />
>> >     </form>
>> >
>> > Dunno if enough people would use this to justify putting it on a public
>> > page.
>>
>> Should be easy enough to add if people want it - somewhere under
>> www.postgresql.org/developer/ i'd assume...
>
> Yes, I think it would be very useful to have on our website.

+1

I'd like to have a Google chrome extension that exposes it through a
right-click context menu. Do you know enough javascript to throw one
together, Magnus? :-)

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