This issue was caught by perlcritic in harsh severity level noticing that catch variable was used outside conditional thanks to the Perl::Critic::Policy::RegularExpressions::ProhibitCaptureWithoutTest policy. See "Perl Best Practices", chapter 12. Regular Expressions, section 12.15. Captured Values: Pattern matches that fail never assign anything to $1, $2, etc., nor do they leave those variables undefined. After an unsuccessful pattern match, the numeric capture variables remain exactly as they were before the match was attempted. New version is in my opinion much easier to understand; previous version worked correctly due to the fact that we returned from loop on first found match. Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> --- This is not the only place caught by this policy, but this is the one where fix was obviously needed to improve readibility of code. In _most_ (but not all) of other places we assume that output we parse is in given format, and that regexp would always match... gitweb/gitweb.perl | 7 ++++--- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl index 097bd18..c72ae10 100755 --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl @@ -690,9 +690,10 @@ sub evaluate_path_info { # format key itself, with a prepended dot while (my ($fmt, $opt) = each %known_snapshot_formats) { my $hash = $refname; - my $sfx; - $hash =~ s/(\Q$opt->{'suffix'}\E|\Q.$fmt\E)$//; - next unless $sfx = $1; + unless ($hash =~ s/(\Q$opt->{'suffix'}\E|\Q.$fmt\E)$//) { + next; + } + my $sfx = $1; # a valid suffix was found, so set the snapshot format # and reset the hash parameter $input_params{'snapshot_format'} = $fmt; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html