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[PATCH] git-svn: don't escape tilde ('~') for http(s) URLs

From
EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
Oct 21, 2008, 21:12 UTC
Message-ID
<20081021211131.GA21606@yp-box.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To
<20081018224728.GD3107@atjola.homenet>

Thanks to Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo and Björn Steinbrink for the bug report.

On 2008.10.18 23:39:19 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo reported on #git that a git-svn clone of this
> svn repo fails for him:
> https://sucs.org/~welshbyte/svn/backuptool/trunk
>
> I can reproduce that here with:
> git-svn version 1.6.0.2.541.g46dc1.dirty (svn 1.5.1)
>
> The error message I get is:
> Apache got a malformed URI: Unusable URI: it does not refer to this
> repository at /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 4057
>
> strace revealed that git-svn url-encodes ~ while svn does not do that.
>
> For svn we have:
> write(5, "<S:update-report send-all=\"true\" xmlns:S=\"svn:\">
> <S:src-path>https://sucs.org/~welshbyte/svn/backuptool/trunk</S:src-path>...
>
> While git-svn shows:
> write(7, "<S:update-report send-all=\"true\" xmlns:S=\"svn:\">
> <S:src-path>https://sucs.org/%7Ewelshbyte/svn/backuptool/trunk</S:src-path>...
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
---
 git-svn.perl |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index ef6d773..a97049a 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -852,7 +852,7 @@ sub escape_uri_only {
 	my ($uri) = @_;
 	my @tmp;
 	foreach (split m{/}, $uri) {
-		s/([^\w.%+-]|%(?![a-fA-F0-9]{2}))/sprintf("%%%02X",ord($1))/eg;
+		s/([^~\w.%+-]|%(?![a-fA-F0-9]{2}))/sprintf("%%%02X",ord($1))/eg;
 		push @tmp, $_;
 	}
 	join('/', @tmp);
@@ -3537,7 +3537,7 @@ sub repo_path {
 sub url_path {
 	my ($self, $path) = @_;
 	if ($self->{url} =~ m#^https?://#) {
-		$path =~ s/([^a-zA-Z0-9_.-])/uc sprintf("%%%02x",ord($1))/eg;
+		$path =~ s/([^~a-zA-Z0-9_.-])/uc sprintf("%%%02x",ord($1))/eg;
 	}
 	$self->{url} . '/' . $self->repo_path($path);
 }
@@ -3890,7 +3890,7 @@ sub escape_uri_only {
 	my ($uri) = @_;
 	my @tmp;
 	foreach (split m{/}, $uri) {
-		s/([^\w.%+-]|%(?![a-fA-F0-9]{2}))/sprintf("%%%02X",ord($1))/eg;
+		s/([^~\w.%+-]|%(?![a-fA-F0-9]{2}))/sprintf("%%%02X",ord($1))/eg;
 		push @tmp, $_;
 	}
 	join('/', @tmp);
-- 
Eric Wong
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  1. Björn SteinbrinkOct 18, 2008
  2. Björn SteinbrinkOct 18, 2008
  3. git-svn: don't escape tilde ('~') for http(s) URLsEric Wong, Oct 21, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2008
  5. Mike HommeyOct 22, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 22, 2008
  7. Eric WongOct 22, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 22, 2008
  9. Eric WongOct 24, 2008

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