Merge "Add note regarding unsupported HTML matching comment link format"

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David Pursehouse
2018-01-09 01:27:45 +00:00
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@@ -1380,10 +1380,13 @@ upper and lower case character for each position must be used. For
example, to match the string `bug` in a case insensitive way the match example, to match the string `bug` in a case insensitive way the match
pattern `[bB][uU][gG]` needs to be used. pattern `[bB][uU][gG]` needs to be used.
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The regular expression pattern is applied to the HTML form of the message Between the GWT UI and PolyGerrit, the commentlink.name.match regular
in question, which means it needs to assume the data has been escaped. expressions are applied differently. Whereas in the GWT UI the
So `"` needs to be matched as `&amp;quot;`, `<` as `&amp;lt;`, and `'` as expressions are applied to the formatted and escaped HTML result, the
`&amp;#39;`. PolyGerrit UI applies them only to the raw, unformatted and unescaped
text form. PolyGerrit does not support regex matching against HTML.
Comment link patterns that are written in this style should be updated
to match text formats.
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A common pattern to match is `bug\\s+(\\d+)`. A common pattern to match is `bug\\s+(\\d+)`.