On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 16:11 +0100, Jakub Narębski wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Krzesimir Nowak <krzesimir@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > So future reader will know what does it mean without running "perldoc
> > perlvar".
>
> Hmmm... shouldn't future reader know it anyway? It is not that cryptic.
> I'd say it is idiomatic Perl.
>
It's plainly obscure. And I think it is not that often used - I keep
forgetting what that pair of punctuation is actually meaning. In this
case I guess it would be more readable to use the following code
instead:
$fh->input_record_separator ("\0");
> Besides, it is not the only place where we set input record separator to NUL,
> to match corresponding option to git command to separate records with NUL
> (the '-z' option in this case). Others are git_get_path_by_hash(),
> parse_commit(),
> and parse_commits(), git_tree(), not including places where we set $/ to undef
> to slurp whole file: git_get_link_target(), git_blobdiff() for $format
> == 'plain', etc.
Yes, but I stumbled upon that one when trying to understand how config
parsing works. So I added a comment.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Krzesimir Nowak <krzesimir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > gitweb/gitweb.perl | 2 ++
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> > index 68c77f6..ee61f9e 100755
> > --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> > +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> > @@ -2629,6 +2629,8 @@ sub git_parse_project_config {
> > my $section_regexp = shift;
> > my %config;
> >
> > + # input record separator, so getline does end on null, not
> > + # newline
> > local $/ = "\0";
>
> It is here because of '-z' option below (to account for values with
> embedded newlines).
>
> >
> > open my $fh, "-|", git_cmd(), "config", '-z', '-l',
> > --
> > 1.8.3.1
> >
>
>
>
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krzesimir@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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