Re: Weird mangling of a commit log entry in gitweb summary

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 09:34:23AM +0200, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2022-Jul-17, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 1:26 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 
> > > 6 hours ago     Tom Lane        Remove postc's reset_shared() wrapper function.         commit | commitdiff |
tree
> > >
> > > What's up with that?
> > 
> > I have no idea why but it's clearly getting confused by the single
> > quote. But it doesn't appear to do that in other places where there's
> > a single quote in there. I see nothing strange with the commit message
> > itself, and the cgit view of it shows nothing strange either...
> 
> How do you know it's the single quote?  The problem is not adjacent to
> that.  Maybe it's replacing the string "branch name followed by period"
> with an empty string.

It looks like some gitweb's heuristics to try to reduce the title name:

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/gitweb/gitweb.perl#L3570-L3572

> if (length($title) > 50) {
>     $title =~ s/(master|www|rsync)\.//;
> }