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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gitweb-projects
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:08:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fal7gn$2vf$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9e4733910708231438q4c454686p55cef622e61d6a2a@mail.gmail.com

[Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org]

Jon Smirl wrote:

> What is the magic incantation for encoding an email address along with
> the project owner name? From the source I see these strings need to be
> URL encoded (it doesn't seem to be in the doc)

It is mentioned in gitweb/INSTALL, in the "Gitweb repositories" section

> but now I'm getting XML errors.
>
> I tried this:
> mpc5200b.git Jon+Smirl+%3Cjonsmirl%2664%3Bgmail.com%3E

I guess that this might have nothing to do with URL-encoding of projects
index file, but with proper escaping in the gitweb, i.e. the string is
not wrapped in esc_html.

In other words, it is a bug in the gitweb.

> Does this string really need to be URL encoded? Couldn't you split on
> the first space and then url encode it in the perl code? That would
> let me write the string in English instead of geek.
> 
> mpc5200b.git Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>

Not possible, as path to repository can contain spaces.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-24  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-23 21:38 gitweb-projects Jon Smirl
2007-08-24  0:08 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
     [not found]   ` <9e4733910708231711o71aa3953i349bce96c5eee8f0@mail.gmail.com>
2007-08-24  7:35     ` gitweb-projects Jakub Narebski
2007-08-26  0:16       ` gitweb-projects Jon Smirl
2007-08-26  0:20         ` gitweb-projects Jon Smirl

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