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Re: Issue specifying hostname in commit-email.pl; regex bug?

From: Jason Forkey <jason_at_forkey.net>
Date: 2007-05-09 18:16:24 CEST

At Wed, 9 May 2007 09:45:45 -0500,
"Andrew R Feller" <afelle1@lsu.edu> wrote:
>
> While trying to use the commit-email.pl script, I was having issues
> specifying the hostname to be appended to the author information
> (lsu.edu). Whenever the script ran, it would complain that the hostname
> argument (-h <hostname>) wasn't missing. After looking into the source
> code, I noticed the regular expressions used; they want the hostname to
> be a single character?!
>
> The following snippet is from the CollabNet's 1.4.3 tag of
> commit-email.pl. The latest version from trunk has the same code as
> well.
> (http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.4.3/tools/hook-scripts/mailer/ma
> iler.py)
>
> ========================================================================
> if ($from_address =~ /\w/)
> {
> $mail_from = $from_address;
> }
> elsif ($hostname =~ /\w/)
> {
> $mail_from = "$mail_from\@$hostname";
> }
> elsif (defined $smtp_server)
> {
> die "$0: use of either `-h' or `--from' is mandatory when ",
> "sending email using direct SMTP.\n";
> }
> ========================================================================
>
> Does anyone know if I am missing something or is this a legitimate bug?
>

That particular regular expression will match if there is a word character
anywhere in the hostname. It doesn't have to be only one character, /^\w$/

Perhaps you are running in to the same problem I saw.
http://www.nabble.com/commit-email.pl-hook-script-broken-when-using--m-switch-t3681480.html

What is the exact command line you are executing in the post-commit hook? What
is the exact error message that is returned?

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