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Expose git blame in api

Oleg Zubchenko requested to merge RGBD/gitlab-ce:add-git-blame-api into master

What does this MR do?

This merge request exposes git blame available in web version in GitLab API.

Fixes #51345 (closed).

Example request

GET /api/v4/projects/49/repository/files/files%2Fruby%2Fpopen%2Erb/blame

Example response

[
  {
    "commit": {
      "id": "913c66a37b4a45b9769037c55c2d238bd0942d2e",
      "message": "Files, encoding and much more\n\nSigned-off-by: Dmitriy Zaporozhets <dmitriy.zaporozhets@gmail.com>\n",
      "parent_ids": [
        "cfe32cf61b73a0d5e9f13e774abde7ff789b1660"
      ],
      "authored_date": "2014-02-27T08:14:56.000Z",
      "author_name": "Dmitriy Zaporozhets",
      "author_email": "dmitriy.zaporozhets@gmail.com",
      "committed_date": "2014-02-27T08:14:56.000Z",
      "committer_name": "Dmitriy Zaporozhets",
      "committer_email": "dmitriy.zaporozhets@gmail.com"
    },
    "lines": [
      "require 'fileutils'",
      "require 'open3'",
      ""
    ]
  }
]

Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

Conformity

Performance and testing

Git blame is a heavy operation and may potentially result in Denial of Service if used on big repositories.

Security

If this MR contains changes to processing or storing of credentials or tokens, authorization and authentication methods and other items described in the security review guidelines:

  • [-] Label as security and @ mention @gitlab-com/gl-security/appsec
  • [-] The MR includes necessary changes to maintain consistency between UI, API, email, or other methods
  • [-] Security reports checked/validated by a reviewer from the AppSec team
Edited by Oleg Zubchenko

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