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{% extends "./layout.html" %}
{% comment %}
Copyright (C) 2017-2018 The Software Heritage developers
See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
License: GNU Affero General Public License version 3, or any later version
See top-level LICENSE file for more information
{% endcomment %}
{% block navbar-content %}
<h4>How to browse the archive ?</h4>
{% endblock %}
{% block browse-content %}
<ul class="list-inline">
<li class="list-inline-item">
<a href="#overview">Overview</a>
</li>
<li class="list-inline-item">
<a href="#uri-scheme">URI scheme</a>
</li>
<li class="list-inline-item">
<a href="#search-origins">Search software origins to browse</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="overview">Overview</h4>
<p>
This web application aims to provide HTML views to easily navigate in the Software Heritage archive. This is an ongoing development
and new features and improvements will be progressively added over time.
</p>
<h4 id="uri-scheme">URI scheme</h4>
<p>
The current URI scheme of that web application is described below and depends on the type of Software Heritage object to
browse. Its exhaustive documentation can be consulted from the official
<a href="https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-web/uri-scheme-browse.html">
Software Heritage development documentation
</a>
</p>
<h5>Context-independent browsing</h5>
<p>
Context-independent URLs provide information about objects (e.g., revisions, directories, contents, persons, …), independently
of the contexts where they have been found (e.g., specific software origins, branches, commits, …).
</p>
<p>
Below are some examples of endpoints used to just render the corresponding information for user consumption:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Display a
<b>content</b> from its checksum:
<a href="{% url 'browse-content' 'sha1:4dfc4478b1d5f7388b298fdfc06802485bdeae0c' %}">
{% url 'browse-content' 'sha1:4dfc4478b1d5f7388b298fdfc06802485bdeae0c' %}
</a>
</li>
<li>
Display a
<b>directory</b> from its
<i>sha1_git</i> identifier:
<a href="{% url 'browse-directory' '977fc4b98c0e85816348cebd3b12026407c368b6' %}">
{% url 'browse-directory' '977fc4b98c0e85816348cebd3b12026407c368b6' %}
</a>
<br/> (see the
<a href="https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-model/apidoc/swh.model.identifiers.html#swh.model.identifiers.directory_identifier">documentation</a> to get more details about how it is computed)
</li>
<li>
Display information about a
<b>revision</b> from its
<i>sha1_git</i> identifier:
<a href="{% url 'browse-revision' 'f1b94134a4b879bc55c3dacdb496690c8ebdc03f' %}">
{% url 'browse-revision' 'f1b94134a4b879bc55c3dacdb496690c8ebdc03f' %}
</a>
<br/> (see the
<a href="https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-model/apidoc/swh.model.identifiers.html#swh.model.identifiers.revision_identifier">documentation</a> to get more details about how it is computed)
</li>
<li>
Display information about a
<b>snapshot</b> from its
<i>sha1</i> identifier:
<a href="{% url 'browse-snapshot' 'baebc2109e4a2ec22a1129a3859647e191d04df4' %}">
{% url 'browse-snapshot' 'baebc2109e4a2ec22a1129a3859647e191d04df4' %}
</a>
<br/> (see the
<a href="https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-model/apidoc/swh.model.identifiers.html#swh.model.identifiers.snapshot_identifier">documentation</a> to get more details about how it is computed)
</li>
</ul>
<p>
Where hyperlinks are created when browsing these kind of endpoints, they always point to other context-independent browsing
URLs.
</p>
<h5>Context-dependent browsing</h5>
<p>
Context-dependent URLs provide information about objects, limited to specific contexts where the objects have been found.
</p>
<p>
Currently, browsing the Software Heritage objects in the context of an
<b>origin</b> is available. Below are some examples of such endpoints:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Display information about the visits of a software
<b>origin</b>:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="{% url 'browse-origin-visits' 'https://github.com/torvalds/linux' %}">
{% url 'browse-origin-visits' 'https://github.com/torvalds/linux' %}
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="{% url 'browse-origin-visits' 'https://github.com/python/cpython' %}">
{% url 'browse-origin-visits' 'https://github.com/python/cpython' %}
</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Display the latest archived
<b>snapshot</b> for a software
<b>origin</b>:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="{% url 'browse-origin' 'https://github.com/torvalds/linux' %}">
{% url 'browse-origin' 'https://github.com/torvalds/linux' %}
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="{% url 'browse-origin' 'https://github.com/python/cpython' %}">
{% url 'browse-origin' 'https://github.com/python/cpython' %}
</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Display a
<b>content</b> from an
<b>origin</b>:
<a href="{% url 'browse-origin-content' origin_url='https://github.com/git/git' path='git.c' %}">
{% url 'browse-origin-content' origin_url='https://github.com/git/git' path='git.c' %}
</a>
</li>
<li>
Display a
<b>directory</b> from an
<b>origin</b>:
<a href="{% url 'browse-origin-directory' origin_url='https://github.com/torvalds/linux' path='net/ethernet' %}">
{% url 'browse-origin-directory' origin_url='https://github.com/torvalds/linux' path='net/ethernet' %}
</a>
</li>
<li>
Display the
<b>revision history</b> (aka the commit log) from an
<b>origin</b>:
<a href="{% url 'browse-origin-log' origin_url='https://github.com/Kitware/CMake' %}">
{% url 'browse-origin-log' origin_url='https://github.com/Kitware/CMake' %}
</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="search-origins">Search software origins to browse</h4>
In order to facilitate the browsing of the archive and generate relevant entry points to it, a
<a href="{% url 'browse-search' %}">search interface</a> is available. Currently, it enables to search software origins from the URLs they were retrieved
from. More search criteria will be added in the future.
<script>
swh.webapp.initPage('help');
</script>
{% endblock %}

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