gitweb: use highlight's shebang detectionik/gitweb-force-highlight

The "highlight" binary can, in some cases, determine the language type
by the means of file contents, for example the shebang in the first line
for some scripting languages.  Make use of this autodetection for files
which syntax is not known by gitweb.  In that case, pass the blob
contents to "highlight --force"; the parameter is needed to make it
always generate HTML output (which includes HTML-escaping).

Although we now run highlight on files which do not end up highlighted,
performance is virtually unaffected because when we call highlight, it
is used for escaping HTML.  In the case that highlight is used, gitweb
calls sanitize() instead of esc_html(), and the latter is significantly
slower (it does more, being roughly a superset of sanitize()).  Simple
benchmark comparing performance of 'blob' view of files without syntax
highlighting in gitweb before and after this change indicates ±1%
difference in request time for all file types.  Benchmark was performed
on local instance on Debian, using Apache/2.4.23 web server and CGI.

Document the feature and improve syntax highlight documentation, add
test to ensure gitweb doesn't crash when language detection is used.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kelling <ian@iankelling.org>
Acked-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 6cb4280e49..44094f41d5 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -3931,15 +3931,16 @@ sub guess_file_syntax {
 # or return original FD if no highlighting
 sub run_highlighter {
 	my ($fd, $highlight, $syntax) = @_;
-	return $fd unless ($highlight && defined $syntax);
+	return $fd unless ($highlight);
 
 	close $fd;
+	my $syntax_arg = (defined $syntax) ? "--syntax $syntax" : "--force";
 	open $fd, quote_command(git_cmd(), "cat-file", "blob", $hash)." | ".
 	          quote_command($^X, '-CO', '-MEncode=decode,FB_DEFAULT', '-pse',
 	            '$_ = decode($fe, $_, FB_DEFAULT) if !utf8::decode($_);',
 	            '--', "-fe=$fallback_encoding")." | ".
 	          quote_command($highlight_bin).
-	          " --replace-tabs=8 --fragment --syntax $syntax |"
+	          " --replace-tabs=8 --fragment $syntax_arg |"
 		or die_error(500, "Couldn't open file or run syntax highlighter");
 	return $fd;
 }
@@ -7063,8 +7064,7 @@ sub git_blob {
 
 	my $highlight = gitweb_check_feature('highlight');
 	my $syntax = guess_file_syntax($highlight, $file_name);
-	$fd = run_highlighter($fd, $highlight, $syntax)
-		if $syntax;
+	$fd = run_highlighter($fd, $highlight, $syntax);
 
 	git_header_html(undef, $expires);
 	my $formats_nav = '';
@@ -7117,7 +7117,7 @@ sub git_blob {
 			$line = untabify($line);
 			printf qq!<div class="pre"><a id="l%i" href="%s#l%i" class="linenr">%4i</a> %s</div>\n!,
 			       $nr, esc_attr(href(-replay => 1)), $nr, $nr,
-			       $syntax ? sanitize($line) : esc_html($line, -nbsp=>1);
+			       $highlight ? sanitize($line) : esc_html($line, -nbsp=>1);
 		}
 	}
 	close $fd