Although hexdump(1)-style rendering of binary blob content may reveal
some meaningful information about the data, it wastes even more storage
space than embedding the raw data itself. However, many binary files
have a "magic number" or other signature near the beginning of the file,
so it is often possible to glean useful information from just the
initial chunk of the file without having the entire content available.
Thus, limiting the rendered data to just an initial chunk saves storage
space while still potentially presenting useful information about the
binary content.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar>
Raw binary blob content tends to look like "line noise" and is rarely,
if ever, meaningful. A hexdump(1)-style rendering (specifically,
"hexdump -C"), on the other hand, showing runs of hexadecimal byte
values along with an ASCII representation of those bytes can sometimes
reveal useful information about the data.
(A subsequent patch will add the ability to cap the amount of data
rendered in order to reduce storage space requirements.)
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar>
This patch adds the age of the repository to the index view, using javascript
to give a nice human string for the age.
When javascript is not available, the element remains hidden.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar>
