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patchgitweb: Fix setting $/ in parse_commit()

Subject: [PATCH] gitweb: Fix setting $/ in parse_commit()

## tl;dr

One message between Oct 24, 2006 and Oct 24, 2006. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Petr Baudis· Oct 24, 2006, 00:39 UTC · lore

If the commit couldn't have been read, $/ wasn't restored to \n properly, causing random havoc like git_get_ref_list() returning the ref names with trailing \n.

Aside of potential confusion in the body of git_search(), no other $/ surprises are hopefully hidden in the code.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
---
 gitweb/gitweb.perl |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Show changes to gitweb/gitweb.perl +1 −2
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 13f04d6..9868485 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -1165,12 +1165,11 @@ sub parse_commit {
 	if (defined $commit_text) {
 		@commit_lines = @$commit_text;
 	} else {
-		$/ = "\0";
+		local $/ = "\0";
 		open my $fd, "-|", git_cmd(), "rev-list", "--header", "--parents", "--max-count=1", $commit_id
 			or return;
 		@commit_lines = split '\n', <$fd>;
 		close $fd or return;
-		$/ = "\n";
 		pop @commit_lines;
 	}
 	my $header = shift @commit_lines;

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