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(Resend)[PATCH] git-svn: Translate invalid characters in refname

From
RERobert Ewald <robert.ewald@nov.com>
Date
Jul 30, 2007, 09:08 UTC
Message-ID
<f8k9q5$927$1@sea.gmane.org>

In git some characters are invalid as documented in git-check-ref-format. In subversion these characters might be valid, so a translation is required.

This patch does this translation by url escaping characters, that are not allowed.

Credit goes to Eric Wong, martin f. krafft and Jan Hudec
Signed-off-by: Robert Ewald <robewald@gmx.net>
---

Second posting of translating characters. I hope I got it right this time. Thanks to Alex for taking the time to point me to Documentation/SubmittingPatches.

 git-svn.perl |   38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index 6c692a7..bc55d05 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -938,8 +938,8 @@ sub resolve_local_globs {
        foreach (command(qw#for-each-ref --format=%(refname) refs/remotes#)) {
                next unless m#^refs/remotes/$ref->{regex}$#;
                my $p = $1;
-               my $pathname = $path->full_path($p);
-               my $refname = $ref->full_path($p);
+               my $pathname = desanitize_refname($path->full_path($p));
+               my $refname = desanitize_refname($ref->full_path($p));
                if (my $existing = $fetch->{$pathname}) {
                        if ($existing ne $refname) {
                                die "Refspec conflict:\n",
@@ -1239,7 +1239,39 @@ sub new {
        $self;
 }
 
-sub refname { "refs/remotes/$_[0]->{ref_id}" }
+sub refname {
+        my ($refname) = "refs/remotes/$_[0]->{ref_id}" ;
+
+        # It cannot end with a slash /, we'll throw up on this because
+        # SVN can't have directories with a slash in their name, either:
+        if ($refname =~ m{/$}) {
+                die "ref: '$refname' ends with a trailing slash, this is ",
+                    "not permitted by git nor Subversion\n";
+        }
+
+        # It cannot have ASCII control character space, tilde ~, caret ^,
+        # colon :, question-mark ?, asterisk *, space, or open bracket [
+        # anywhere.
+        #
+        # Additionally, % must be escaped because it is used for escaping
+        # and we want our escaped refname to be reversible
+        $refname =~ s{([ \%~\^:\?\*\[\t])}{uc sprintf('%%%02x',ord($1))}eg;
+
+        # no slash-separated component can begin with a dot .
+        # /.* becomes /%2E*
+        $refname =~ s{/\.}{/%2E}g;
+        # It cannot have two consecutive dots .. anywhere
+        # .. becomes %2E%2E
+        $refname =~ s{\.\.}{%2E%2E}g;
+
+        $refname;
+}
+
+sub desanitize_refname {
+    my ($refname) = @_;
+    $refname =~ s{%(?:([0-9A-F]{2}))}{chr hex($1)}eg;
+    $refname;
+}
 
 sub svm_uuid {
        my ($self) = @_;
-- 
1.5.3.rc3-dirty
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  1. Robert EwaldJul 30, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 30, 2007
  3. Robert EwaldJul 30, 2007
  4. Eric WongJul 30, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2007
  6. martin f krafftAug 15, 2007

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