Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Fix file name quoting in simplified out patch detection for --cc output

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:22:02 -0700

Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]> writes:

> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> index 8c1e02c..5d424e5 100755
> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> @@ -3140,8 +3140,8 @@ sub git_patchset_body {
>  			# compact combined diff output can have some patches skipped
>  			# find which patch (using pathname of result) we are at now
>  			my $to_name;
> -			if ($patch_line =~ m!^diff --cc "?(.*)"?$!) {
> -				$to_name = $1;
> +			if ($patch_line =~ m!^diff --cc ("?.*"?)$!) {
> +				$to_name = unquote($1);
>  			}

This patch obviously makes sense, but I wonder why you use the
form m!foobar! here, instead of far simpler to read /foobar/
form?