I found a solution to the problem: If a gerrit administrator declares the mimetypes of the files to be safe they will be displayed in-browser rather than downloaded as zip files: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/config-gerrit.html#_a_… Could someone edit the gerrit.config file to declare php, javascript, and css files as 'safe'? Ryan Kaldari On 12/11/12 10:47 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: That doesn't quite work the way you're thinking--it's for us to define mimetypes that Gerrit should show diffs of (rather than a zip download of the file). All text- based filetypes are already shown by the browser as diffs, but most binary filetypes aren't shown on diff. Images originally suffered this problem, but we fixed it[0]. There's not a config switch for what the OP is asking for--but feel free to file a bug upstream[1] :) -Chad [0] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36852 [1] https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/list

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: Yes, I'm pretty sure. That thread is confusing. Before we enabled this for images, you used to have to download images as a zip rather than in diffs. I'm pretty sure it has no affect on the "download" buttons serving zips on those pages...but we can test. See bug 36852[0] for history. Also fun is which mimetypes to use[1] ;-) -Chad [0] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36852 [1] http://cweiske.de/tagebuch/php-mimetype.htm

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: +1 this is a huge pain point for me too.

I started this thread. I filed this bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42989 Gerrit: show link for raw file content in gerrit "diff" views (a solution is proposed inside) It has been closed as "RESOLVED INVALID" instead of deploying a solution to Gerrit. As a solution of the problem (show a raw file content) has not been found (GitHub shows raw file contents, SVN browser ViewVC shows raw file contents) example https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/AJAXPoll/AJAXPo… I feel unhappy. Very unhappy.