Escape project name in regexp

The project name, when used in a regular expression, needs to be quoted
properly, so that stuff like '++' in the project name does not cause
Perl to barf.

Related info: http://bugs.debian.org/476076
This is a bug in Perl's CGI.pm, but fixing that exposed a similar bug in
gitweb.perl

Signed-off-by: martin f. krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 746153ffe8fb020db4f6a4aafe779848b5260bb7..4abd7ac1adae1bb166d239e5efe75bebaf8110d7 100755 (executable)
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ sub evaluate_path_info {
        }
        # do not change any parameters if an action is given using the query string
        return if $action;
-       $path_info =~ s,^$project/*,,;
+       $path_info =~ s,^\Q$project\E/*,,;
        my ($refname, $pathname) = split(/:/, $path_info, 2);
        if (defined $pathname) {
                # we got "project.git/branch:filename" or "project.git/branch:dir/"