Re: git web--browse error handling URL with & in it (Was Re: [RFC/PATCH] Configurable hyperlinking in gitk)

[Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>]

Hi,

On Sunday 18 September 2011 05:29:34 Jeff King wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 12:32:04PM +1200, Chris Packham wrote:
> > Update: it's the call to eval that causes the problem
> > 
> >   eval kfmclient newTab https://internalhost/code\&stuff/bugs.php?id=foo
> >   [1] 14728
> >   bash: stuff/bugs.php?id=foo: No such file or directory
> 
> Hmm. The offending lines look like:
> 
>   eval "$browser_path" "$@" &
> 
> Normally in git we treat user-configured commands as shell snippets,
> meaning the user is responsible for any quoting. But in this script, we
> seem to run:
> 
>   type "$browser_path"
> 
> several times. Which implies that "$browser_path" must be the actual
> executable. In which case, I would think that:
> 
>   "$browser_path" "$@" &
> 
> would be the right thing. And indeed, that is what the firefox arm of
> the case statement does. But chrome, konqueror, and others use eval.

Yeah, I don't remember why I sometimes used 'eval "$browser_path" "$@"' when I 
wrote this code. Sorry!
 
> Unrelated, but it also looks like $browser_path is used unquoted in the
> firefox case (see inside the vers=$(...)).

Thanks,
Christian.