Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Configurable hyperlinking in gitk

From: Marc Branchaud <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:05:52 -0400

On 11-09-17 07:33 PM, Chris Packham wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> Using the following works as expected with no error with your updated patch.
> 
>   git config gitk.linkify.bugtracker.sub \
>        'https://internalhost/code%26stuff/bugs.php?id=\1'

Jeff: This is great -- thanks!

I still had problems with using an & in the URL, even with the updated patch.
 I had to apply Chris's git-web--browse patch to get it to work.

		M.