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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH (BUGFIX)] gitweb: Handle invalid regexp in regexp search
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:56:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201202291656.36222.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vwr76yc6w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > When using regexp search ('sr' parameter / $search_use_regexp variable
> > is true), check first that regexp is valid.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> How old is this bug?  Should it go to older maitenance tracks like 1.7.6?

>From what I examined this bug is from the very beginning when gitweb
started to distinguish regexp search and fixed string search in

  0e55991 (gitweb: Clearly distinguish regexp / exact match searches, 2008-02-26)

It was present in 1.5.5 (including beginnings of match highlighting, which
trigger this bug).


This bug was present so long without detection because circumstances must
be quite specific: you have to select regexp search, and to provide invalid
regexp.  If you know what regexp is, you probably write correct ones...
but there always room for mistake.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-29 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-28 18:41 [PATCH (BUGFIX)] gitweb: Handle invalid regexp in regexp search Jakub Narebski
2012-02-28 19:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-29 15:56   ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2012-03-02 19:44 ` Ramsay Jones
2012-03-02 22:34   ` [PATCH (BUGFIX)] gitweb: Fix fixed string (non-regexp) project search Jakub Narebski
2012-03-03  0:08     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-03 10:55       ` Jakub Narebski
2012-03-04  9:35         ` [PATCH (for maint)] " Jakub Narebski
2012-03-05  5:16           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-05  8:59             ` Jakub Narebski
2012-03-05 17:01               ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-05 23:27                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-06 11:59                   ` Jakub Narebski
2012-03-04 18:00         ` [PATCH (BUGFIX)] " Jakub Narebski
2012-03-04 23:08         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-05  9:03           ` Jakub Narebski
2012-03-05 19:06     ` Ramsay Jones
2012-03-06 12:40       ` Jakub Narebski

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