Change the error message to report the erroneous password character. $1 was never set in the previos version, it was a leftover from older code that used a regex for the test. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- git-cvsserver.perl | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl index 6de7921..0f45c39 100755 --- a/git-cvsserver.perl +++ b/git-cvsserver.perl @@ -2658,7 +2658,10 @@ sub descramble # This should never happen, the same password format (A) has been # used by CVS since the beginning of time - die "invalid password format $1" unless substr($str, 0, 1) eq 'A'; + { + my $fmt = substr($str, 0, 1); + die "invalid password format `$fmt'" unless $fmt eq 'A'; + } my @str = unpack "C*", substr($str, 1); my $ret = join '', map { chr $SHIFTS[$_] } @str; -- 1.7.1.251.g92a7 -- 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