From: Jakub Narebski Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:26:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Better regexp for SHA-1 committag match Message-ID: <200902061126.18418.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Dnia piątek 6. lutego 2009 10:49, Rafael Garcia-Suarez napisał: > 2009/2/6 Jakub Narebski : > > Make SHA-1 regexp to be turned into hyperlink (the SHA-1 committag) > > to match word boundary at the beginning and the end. This way we > > reduce number of false matches, for example we now don't match > > 0x74a5cd01 which is hex decimal (for example memory address), > > but is not SHA-1. > > Further suggestion: you could also turn the final \b into (\b|\@), You meant \b -> \b(?!\@), didn't you? Word boundary _not_ followed by '@', and not word boundary _OR_ '@' as you wrote... > so it skips stuff that might look like a message-id. > Here's an example : > http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/f57255841c18e91c7a719a2400645e39398f3947 For those who do not want to open browser, it is: Message-ID: <46A0F33545E63740BC7563DE59CA9C6D0939A0@exchsvr2.npl.ad.local> > (We get loads of this in the Perl repository) > > - if ($line =~ m/([0-9a-fA-F]{8,40})/) { > > + if ($line =~ m/\b([0-9a-fA-F]{8,40})\b/) { -- Jakub Narebski Poland