Re: Non-ASCII paths and git-cvsserver
From: Martin Langhoff <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-11 20:09:18
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
On 11/9/06, sf [off-list ref] 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} )