[U-Boot] Author search of git.denx.de does not work

[Detlev Zundel]

Hi Timur,

> The following URL doesn't show anything:
>
> http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=author&s=Timur+Tabi
>
> No matter what I put after the "s=", I get nothing.  I think it should
> work, because this URL, which has the same search string, does work:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=author&s=Timur+Tabi

It's interesting that this is caused by the git version that we use on
our server.  When the "re" checkbox for regular expressions is not
checked, gitweb.cgi passes "--fixed-strings" to git for the search
operation.  Without knowing the details, I can only state that this
search is not successful on our server, whereas it is with latest git.

So in essence, we'll have to live with this problem, until we update git
on our servers.  As a workaround, you can use the "re" checkbox.

Cheers
  Detlev

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