From 267940e52db87569f0289307d4b8722a116aa308 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julien Dessaux
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 21:47:16 +0200
Subject: Fixed git articles

---
 content/blog/miscellaneous/gitolite-cgit.md |  5 ++++-
 content/docs/adyxax.org/git/gitolite.md     | 12 ++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/content/blog/miscellaneous/gitolite-cgit.md b/content/blog/miscellaneous/gitolite-cgit.md
index bd76991..b480082 100644
--- a/content/blog/miscellaneous/gitolite-cgit.md
+++ b/content/blog/miscellaneous/gitolite-cgit.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 title: Migrating from gitea to gitolite and cgit
 description: A quest for simplicity
 date: 2022-07-15
+tags:
+  - FreeBSD
+  - git
 ---
 
 ## Introduction
@@ -27,4 +30,4 @@ The main challenge I encountered was how to make `go get` or `go install` work w
 
 I solved that issue of injecting this header by:
 - setting a `cgit.extra-head-content` in the gitconfig of my go repositories
-- configuring gitolite to accept such header by customizing its `GIT_CONFIG_KEYS`
+- configuring gitolite to accept such header by customizing its `GIT_CONFIG_KEYS` and working around regex character checks
diff --git a/content/docs/adyxax.org/git/gitolite.md b/content/docs/adyxax.org/git/gitolite.md
index a9aba2e..89fe6ef 100644
--- a/content/docs/adyxax.org/git/gitolite.md
+++ b/content/docs/adyxax.org/git/gitolite.md
@@ -56,12 +56,20 @@ In order to customize the cgit frontend, I needed to allow some git configuratio
 GIT_CONFIG_KEYS => 'cgit.desc cgit.extra-head-content cgit.homepage cgit.hide cgit.ignore cgit.owner cgit.section',
 ```
 
-These keys allow me to specify repositories like this:
+Sadly, the html meta tag we need to add contains `<` and `>` characters, which can have a special meaning in regular expressions. Because of that these characters are banned from values by gitolite, but we have a workaround if we add the following bellow our `GIT_CONFIG_KEYS` line:
+```perl
+SAFE_CONFIG => {
+    LT => '<',
+    GT => '>',
+},
+```
+
+Thanks to this translation table, we can now specify a go repository like this:
 ```perl
 repo adyxax/bareos-zabbix-check
         RW+ = adyxax
         config cgit.desc = A Zabbix check for bareos backups
-        config cgit.extra-head-content=<meta name="go-import" content="git.adyxax.org/adyxax/bareos-zabbix-check git https://git.adyxax.org/adyxax/bareos-zabbix-check">
+        config cgit.extra-head-content = %LTmeta name='go-import' content='git.adyxax.org/adyxax/bareos-zabbix-check git https://git.adyxax.org/adyxax/bareos-zabbix-check'/%GT
         config cgit.owner = Julien Dessaux
         config cgit.section = Active
 ```
-- 
cgit v1.2.3