Re: git web--browse error handling URL with & in it (Was Re: [RFC/PATCH] Configurable hyperlinking in gitk)

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On 18/09/11 12:30, Chris Packham wrote:
> On 18/09/11 11:33, Chris Packham wrote:
>> On 18/09/11 01:45, Jeff Epler wrote:
>>>>> There are probably better names for the configuration options, too.
>>>>
>>>> It'd be nice if the config variables weren't gitk specific. .re and .sub
>>>> could be applied to gitweb and maybe other git viewers outside of
>>>> gig.git might decide to use them. My bikeshedding suggestion would be to
>>>> just drop the gitk prefix and have linkify.re and linkify.sub.
>>>
>>> This seems like a reasonable idea, though since the implementation
>>> languages of gitk and gitweb are different it means some REs might get
>>> different interpretations in the different programs.
>>>
>>>> Sometimes when a commit fixes multiple bugs we put all the bug numbers
>>>> in separated by commas. I don't know Tcl well enough to tell if your
>>>> code supports that or not.
>>>
>>> Multiple matches per line are OK, but they must be non-overlapping.
>>>
>>> Looking at the actual practice in Debian changelogs, I see that they do
>>> this:
>>>     evince/changelog.Debian.gz:        (Closes: #388368, #396467, #405130)
>>> so my original example would only linkify "Closes: #388638".  But a
>>> revised pattern of #(\d+) would linkify "#388368", "#396467" and "#405130".
>>> (but risk a few more "false positive" links).  I should revise my
>>> example accordingly.
>>>
>>> As for the problems with your substitutions, "&" is special in a tcl
>>> regsub (it stands for the whole matched string, like \0), so you'd want
>>> to use a substitution like
>>>     git config gitk.linkify.debian-bts.sub \
>>>         'http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=\1\&foo=bar'
>>
>> Hmm no joy with \&. Seems to upset the invocation of git web-browse
>>
>>   git config gitk.linkify.bugtracker.sub \
>>        'https://internalhost/code\&stuff/bugs.php?id=\1'
>>
>>   gitk
>>   /home/chrisp/libexec/git-core/git-web--browse: line 167:
>> stuff/bugs.php?id=bug123: No such file or directory
>>   fatal: 'web--browse' appears to be a git command, but we were not
>>   able to execute it. Maybe git-web--browse is broken?
> 
> This is probably a issue with git web--browse and nothing to do with
> your changes.
> 
> Sure enough this works fine
> 
>   git web--browse --browser=firefox \
>       https://internalhost/code\&stuff/bugs.php?id=foo
> 
> While this doesn't
> 
>   git web--browse https://internalhost/code\&stuff/bugs.php?id=foo
> 
> /home/chrisp/libexec/git-core/git-web--browse: line 167:
> stuff/bugs.php?id=foo: No such file or directory
> fatal: 'web--browse' appears to be a git command, but we were not
> able to execute it. Maybe git-web--browse is broken?
> 
> Neither does this
> 
>   git web--browse --browser=konqueror \
>      https://internalhost/code\&stuff/bugs.php?id=foo
> 
> A little bit more info that might help diagnose the issue - I'm running
> openSUSE 11.4 (kde 4.6) which ships with firefox set as the default web
> browser so 'kfmclient newTab http://www.example.com' actually opens firefox.
> 
> However trying kfmclient with my funny URL still works
> 
>   kfmclient newTab https://internalhost/code\&stuff/bugs.php?id=foo
> 
> I'm a little stumped as to what is going wrong in git web--browse.
> 

Update: it's the call to eval that causes the problem

  eval kfmclient newTab https://internalhost/code\&stuff/bugs.php?id=foo
  [1] 14728
  bash: stuff/bugs.php?id=foo: No such file or directory

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