Re: Non-ASCII paths and git-cvsserver

["Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>]

On 11/9/06, sf <sf@b-i-t.de> wrote:
> I want to access a git repository via git-cvsserver. The problem is that
> the repository contains paths with umlauts. These paths come out quoted
> and escaped when checked out with cvs.

Thanks for the detailed report! I am travelling right now, so with
"high latency" and on a machine that's missing sqlite libs :-/

But I'll give it a go anyway.

Does this mini-patch help? You'll need Perl 5.8.x and probably a
recent SQLite for this.

diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl
index 8817f8b..c534de5 100755
--- a/git-cvsserver.perl
+++ b/git-cvsserver.perl
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ use Fcntl;
 use File::Temp qw/tempdir tempfile/;
 use File::Basename;

+binmode(STDIN,  ':utf8');
+binmode(STDOUT, ':utf8');
+
 my $log = GITCVS::log->new();
 my $cfg;

@@ -2104,6 +2107,11 @@ sub new
         $self->{tables}{$table} = 1;
     }

+    # this will set the encoding for new DBs
+    # or return false for existing DBs that are not
+    # utf-8
+    $self->{dbh}->do('PRAGMA encoding = "UTF-8"');
+
     # Construct the revision table if required
     unless ( $self->{tables}{revision} )