# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8321649/gitweb-how-to-display-markdown-file-in-html-format-automatically-like-github
--- gitweb.cgi.orig	2020-10-06 10:13:45.621810025 +0100
+++ gitweb.cgi	2020-10-06 10:08:21.651823286 +0100
@@ -18,9 +18,10 @@
 use Encode;
 use Fcntl ':mode';
 use File::Find qw();
-use File::Basename qw(basename);
+use File::Basename qw(basename dirname);
 use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday tv_interval);
 use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);
+use File::Spec; # hack
 
 binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';
 
@@ -6644,6 +6645,20 @@
 		print "\n</div>\n"; # class="readme"
 	}
 
+	# hack
+	if (!$prevent_xss) {
+		$file_name = "README.md";
+		my $proj_head_hash = git_get_head_hash($project);
+		my $readme_blob_hash = git_get_hash_by_path($proj_head_hash, "README.md", "blob");
+ 
+		if ($readme_blob_hash) { # if README.md exists
+			print "<div class=\"header\">$file_name</div>\n";
+			print "<div class=\"readme page_body\">"; # TODO find/create a better CSS class than page_body
+			print get_markdown($file_name, $readme_blob_hash);
+			print "</div>";
+		}
+	}
+
 	# we need to request one more than 16 (0..15) to check if
 	# those 16 are all
 	my @commitlist = $head ? parse_commits($head, 17) : ();
@@ -7117,6 +7132,9 @@
 	my $syntax = guess_file_syntax($highlight, $file_name);
 	$fd = run_highlighter($fd, $highlight, $syntax);
 
+	# hack
+	my $ismarkdown = ($file_name =~ /md$/);
+
 	git_header_html(undef, $expires);
 	my $formats_nav = '';
 	if (defined $hash_base && (my %co = parse_commit($hash_base))) {
@@ -7160,6 +7178,10 @@
 		      esc_attr(href(action=>"blob_plain", hash=>$hash,
 		           hash_base=>$hash_base, file_name=>$file_name)) .
 		      qq!" />\n!;
+	} elsif ($ismarkdown) {
+		print qq!<div class="readme page_body">\n!;
+		print get_markdown($file_name, $hash);
+		print qq!</div>\n!; #  $cmd_markdownify
 	} else {
 		my $nr;
 		while (my $line = <$fd>) {
@@ -7177,6 +7199,79 @@
 	git_footer_html();
 }
 
+# hack
+sub get_norm_rel_path { # http://www.perlmonks.org/bare/?node_id=11907
+   my $unnormpath = shift;
+   while ($unnormpath =~ m!/\.!) {
+       $unnormpath =~ s!/[^\/]+/\.\.!!;
+       # print "Path is now -+$unnormpath+-\n";
+   }
+   return $unnormpath;
+}
+sub get_markdown {
+   my $tfilename = shift;
+   my $thash = shift;
+   my $rethtmlstr = "";
+   use open ":encoding(utf8)"; # needed to have utf8 survive through the shell pipe
+   my $cmd_markdownify = $GIT . " " . git_cmd() . " cat-file blob " . $thash . " | perl -e 'my \$str = do { local \$/; <STDIN> }; \$str =~ s/<!--.*?--\s*>//gs; print \$str;' | markdown |";
+   open (FOO, $cmd_markdownify) or die_error(500, "Open git-cat-file blob '$thash' failed");
+   while (<FOO>) {
+       if ($_ =~ /(<img[^>]src=")(.*?)"/) {
+           my $origcut = "".$2;
+           my $testcut = "".$2;
+           my $is_anchor = ($testcut =~ /^#/);
+           my $is_absolute = ($testcut =~ /^http/);
+           my $is_relative_up = ($testcut =~ /^\.\./);
+           my $is_local_link = ((!$is_anchor) and (!$is_absolute));
+           my $tdir = dirname($tfilename);
+           my $is_tdir_proper = (($tdir ne "") and ($tdir ne "."));
+           #print "XX: $origcut ($is_anchor, $is_absolute - $is_local_link) ($is_relative_up, $is_tdir_proper, $tdir, $tfilename)\n"; # dbg
+           if ($is_local_link) {
+               if ($is_relative_up) { # normalize
+                   if ($is_tdir_proper) {
+                       # cheat with absolute path here:
+                       my $resolved = get_norm_rel_path( File::Spec->rel2abs ("$origcut", "/$tdir" ) );
+                       $resolved = substr $resolved, 1;
+                       #print "YY: $resolved\n";
+                       $_ =~ s!(<img[^>]src=")(.*?)"!$1?p=$project;a=blob_plain;f=$resolved"!gi;
+                   }
+               } else {
+                   $_ =~ s!(<img[^>]src=")(.*?)"!$1?p=$project;a=blob_plain;f=$2"!gi;
+                   #print "ZZ: $_\n";
+               }
+           }
+       }
+       if ($_ =~ /(<a[^>]href=")(.*?)"/) {
+           my $origcut = "".$2;
+           my $testcut = "".$2;
+           my $is_anchor = ($testcut =~ /^#/);
+           my $is_absolute = ($testcut =~ /^http/);
+           my $is_relative_up = ($testcut =~ /^\.\./);
+           my $is_local_link = ((!$is_anchor) and (!$is_absolute));
+           my $tdir = dirname($tfilename);
+           my $is_tdir_proper = (($tdir ne "") and ($tdir ne "."));
+           #print "XX: $origcut ($is_anchor, $is_absolute - $is_local_link) ($is_relative_up, $is_tdir_proper, $tdir, $tfilename)\n"; # dbg
+           if ($is_local_link) {
+               if ($is_relative_up) { # normalize
+                   if ($is_tdir_proper) {
+                       # cheat with absolute path here:
+                       my $resolved = get_norm_rel_path( File::Spec->rel2abs ("$origcut", "/$tdir" ) );
+                       $resolved = substr $resolved, 1;
+                       #print "YY: $resolved\n";
+                       $_ =~ s!(<a[^>]href=")(.*?)"!$1?p=$project;a=blob;f=$resolved"!gi;
+                   }
+               } else {
+                   $_ =~ s!(<a[^>]href=")(.*?)"!$1?p=$project;a=blob;f=$2"!gi;
+                   #print "ZZ: $_\n";
+               }
+           }
+       }
+       $rethtmlstr .= $_;
+   }
+   close(FOO);
+   return $rethtmlstr;
+}
+
 sub git_tree {
 	if (!defined $hash_base) {
 		$hash_base = "HEAD";