git/git-cvsimport.perl, branch jch

Require Perl 5.26.0

2024-10-23T20:16:36Z

Our platform support policy states that we require "versions of dependencies which are generally accepted as stable and supportable, e.g., in line with the version used by other long-term-support distributions". Of Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, and SLES, the four most common distributions that provide LTS versions, the version with mainstream long-term security support with the oldest Perl is 5.26.0 in SLES 15.6. This is a major upgrade, since Perl 5.8.1, according to the Perl documentation, was released in September of 2003. It brings a lot of new features that we can choose to use, such as s///r to return the modified string, the postderef functionality, and subroutine signatures, although the latter was still considered experimental until 5.36. This change was made with the following one-liner, which intentionally excludes modifying the vendored modules we include to avoid conflicts: git grep -l 'use 5.008001' | grep -v 'LoadCPAN/' | xargs perl -pi -e 's/use 5.008001/require v5.26/' Use require instead of use to avoid changing the behavior as the latter enables features and the former does not. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau

Merge branch 'js/update-urls-in-doc-and-comment'

2023-12-18T22:10:12Z

Stale URLs have been updated to their current counterparts (or archive.org) and HTTP links are replaced with working HTTPS links. * js/update-urls-in-doc-and-comment: doc: refer to internet archive doc: update links for andre-simon.de doc: switch links to https doc: update links to current pages

doc: switch links to https

2023-11-26T01:07:05Z

These sites offer https versions of their content. Using the https versions provides some protection for users. Signed-off-by: Josh Soref Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8.1 from 5.8.0

2023-11-16T22:26:32Z

The following commit will make use of a Getopt::Long feature which is only present in Perl >= 5.8.1. Document that as the minimum version we support. Many of our Perl scripts will continue to run with 5.8.0 but this change allows us to adjust them as needed without breaking any promises to our users. The Perl requirement was last changed in d48b284183 (perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8 from 5.6.[21], 2010-09-24). At that time, 5.8.0 was 8 years old. It is now over 21 years old. Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

git-cvsimport: port to SHA-256

2020-06-22T18:21:07Z

Instead of calling the function is_sha1, call it is_oid and update it to match either a SHA-1 or a SHA-256 hex object ID. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson Acked-by: Eric Wong Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Fix spelling errors in messages shown to users

2019-11-10T07:00:54Z

Reported-by: Jens Schleusener Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

perl: call timegm and timelocal with 4-digit year

2018-02-23T22:47:06Z

Amazingly, timegm(gmtime(0)) is only 0 before 2020 because perl's timegm deviates from GNU timegm(3) in how it handles years. man Time::Local says Whenever possible, use an absolute four digit year instead. with a detailed explanation about ambiguity of 2-digit years above that. Even though this ambiguity is error-prone with >50% of users getting it wrong, it has been like this for 20+ years, so we just use 4-digit years everywhere to be on the safe side. We add some extra logic to cvsimport because it allows 2-digit year input and interpreting an 18 as 1918 can be avoided easily and safely. Signed-off-by: Bernhard M. Wiedemann Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

cvsimport: apply shell-quoting regex globally

2017-12-08T17:02:54Z

Commit 5b4efea666 (cvsimport: shell-quote variable used in backticks, 2017-09-11) tried to shell-quote a variable, but forgot to use the "/g" modifier to apply the quoting to the whole variable. This means we'd miss any embedded single-quotes after the first one. Reported-by: Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

cvsimport: shell-quote variable used in backticks

2017-09-12T02:10:22Z

We run `git rev-parse` though the shell, and quote its argument only with single-quotes. This prevents most metacharacters from being a problem, but misses the obvious case when $name itself has single-quotes in it. We can fix this by applying the usual shell-quoting formula. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'cn/cvsimport-perl-update'

2015-06-25T18:08:08Z

* cn/cvsimport-perl-update: cvsimport: silence regex warning appearing in Perl 5.22.