diff hgext/extdiff.py @ 29630:67b180c0e263 stable

extdiff: escape path for docstring (issue5301)

The existing code (a) assumed path would be specified in
encoding.encoding and (b) assumed unicode() objects wouldn't cause
other parts of Mercurial to blow up. Both are dangerous assumptions.

Since we don't know the encoding of path and can't pass non-ASCII
through docstrings, just escape the path and drop the early _(). Will
have to suffice until we can teach docstrings to handle UTF-8b
escaping.

This has the side-effect that the line containing the path is now
variable by the time it reaches _() and thus can't be translated.

--- a/hgext/extdiff.py	Thu Jul 21 15:55:47 2016 -0700
+++ b/hgext/extdiff.py	Mon Jul 18 16:25:35 2016 -0500
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@
     archival,
     cmdutil,
     commands,
-    encoding,
     error,
     filemerge,
     scmutil,
@@ -365,7 +364,10 @@
                 if options:
                     options = ' ' + options
                 return dodiff(ui, repo, cmdline + options, pats, opts)
-            doc = _('''\
+            # We can't pass non-ASCII through docstrings (and path is
+            # in an unknown encoding anyway)
+            docpath = path.encode("string-escape")
+            mydiff.__doc__ = '''\
 use %(path)s to diff repository (or selected files)
 
     Show differences between revisions for the specified files, using
@@ -376,15 +378,7 @@
     that revision is compared to the working directory, and, when no
     revisions are specified, the working directory files are compared
     to its parent.\
-''') % {'path': util.uirepr(path)}
-
-            # We must translate the docstring right away since it is
-            # used as a format string. The string will unfortunately
-            # be translated again in commands.helpcmd and this will
-            # fail when the docstring contains non-ASCII characters.
-            # Decoding the string to a Unicode string here (using the
-            # right encoding) prevents that.
-            mydiff.__doc__ = doc.decode(encoding.encoding)
+''' % {'path': util.uirepr(docpath)}
             return mydiff
         command(cmd, extdiffopts[:], _('hg %s [OPTION]... [FILE]...') % cmd,
                 inferrepo=True)(save(cmdline))