Re: [PATCH] gitweb: escape searchtext and parameters for replay

> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Olaf Hering wrote:
>>> Am 29.04.2009 um 14:28 schrieb Jakub Narebski: 
>>>> On Wed, 29 April 2009, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>>>>>> It should be s=torvalds%40linux instead of s=torvalds\@linux
>>>> If you by hand edit URL changing '\@' to simply '@', does changed
>>>> gitweb URL works correctly?
>>> I tried akpm@osdl.org, and @ and . was escaped with a backslash.
>>> Removing both, and using the plain mail address worked.
>> This problem was fixed in 7e431ef (gitweb: Separate search regexp from 
>> search text), but this fix is present in git 1.5.2 and later,
> 
> I have just checked that current gitweb (1.6.2.rc1.20.g8c5b)
> does not have this bug...
> 
>> and kernel.org gitweb is a fork (adding caching mechanism) of
>> 1.4.5-rc0 (according to info in git.kernel.org HTML source), and
>> it does not have this fix.
>>
>>   http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/warthog9/gitweb.git;a=summary
>>
>> I have CC-ed J.H. on this.
> 
> ... so J.H., or Lea Wiemann, or whoever manages gitweb on kernel.org
> should backport this fix to kernel.org's fork of gitweb sources.