# [PATCH] git-cvsserver: allow regex metacharacters in CVSROOT

1 messages from 2010-01-26 to 2010-01-26. Participants: Gerrit Pape.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/22395

## Gerrit Pape, 2010-01-26 14:47

Subject: [PATCH] git-cvsserver: allow regex metacharacters in CVSROOT
Message-ID: <20100126144716.15009.qmail@2f965a5eeec988.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100126144716.15009.qmail%402f965a5eeec988.315fe32.mid.smarden.org

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When run in a repository with a path name containing regex metacharacters
(e.g. +), git-cvsserver failed to split the client request into CVSROOT
and module.  Now metacharacters are disabled for the value of CVSROOT in
the perl regex so that directory names containing metacharacters are
handled properly.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
---
 git-cvsserver.perl |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl
index 2804106..13751db 100755
--- a/git-cvsserver.perl
+++ b/git-cvsserver.perl
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ sub req_Directory
     $state->{localdir} = $data;
     $state->{repository} = $repository;
     $state->{path} = $repository;
-    $state->{path} =~ s/^$state->{CVSROOT}\///;
+    $state->{path} =~ s/^\Q$state->{CVSROOT}\E\///;
     $state->{module} = $1 if ($state->{path} =~ s/^(.*?)(\/|$)//);
     $state->{path} .= "/" if ( $state->{path} =~ /\S/ );
 
-- 
1.6.6

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