Subject: Re: Fix a critical bug in git-cvsexportcommit.perl

From: Stefan Beller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:20:44 +0200

On 24.09.2014 10:32, Luke Lee wrote:
> I fixed a long standing bug in git-cvsexportcommit.perl script which
> corrupt my Perl code several times. This time I figure it out. It's
> about keyword expansion. Take a simple example, a Perl code like this:
> 
>     printf "Perl/Tk $Tk::Version ($Tk::platform)\n";
> 
> will be incorrectly unexpand by git-cvsexportcommit.perl to:
> 
>     printf "Perl/Tk $Tk$Tk::platform)\n";
> 
> This happens when I try to export a git commit to a CVS working
> directory *with keyword expansion turned off*. git-cvsexportcommit will
> try to simulate what CVS does on unexpanding keywords. However, it *DOES
> NOT* realize only valid keywords should be unexpanded. Please help apply
> this patch.
> 
> Thanks.
> Luke Lee

Thanks for sending a patch. :)

> 
> From a33096156e376924d3a7ac2b5a42877f9aedee58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Luke Lee <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:38:17 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] Fix a critical bug in git-cvsexportcommit.perl about
>  unexpanding keywords which incorrectly delete codes that are not expanded
>  keywords.

Please have a look at Documentation/SubmittingPatches,
also found online at
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/SubmittingPatches

Specially look at section "(2) Describe your changes well."
So the headline could be shorter and then in the body of the commit
message you may want to be more descriptive

Also look at section "(5) Sign your work"
This is to make sure you're legally allowed to send in the patch,
i.e. you're doing it on your own time or your employer allowed you to
send code here to the mailing list.

> 
> ---
>  git-cvsexportcommit.perl | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/git-cvsexportcommit.perl b/git-cvsexportcommit.perl
> index d13f02d..bf41a72 100755
> --- a/git-cvsexportcommit.perl
> +++ b/git-cvsexportcommit.perl
> @@ -309,7 +309,8 @@ foreach my $f (@files) {
>  	while (<FILTER_IN>)
>  	{
>  	    my $line = $_;
> -	    $line =~ s/\$([A-Z][a-z]+):[^\$]+\$/\$$1\$/g;
> +	    $line =~ s/\$(Author|Date|Header|Id|Locker|Log|RCSfile|Revision|Source|State):[^:\$][^\$]+\$/\$$1\$/g;
>  	    print FILTER_OUT $line;
>  	}
>  	close FILTER_IN;
> --
> 2.1.1.303.ga330961.dirty
> 
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