2 files changed, 33 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/filters/commit-links.sh b/filters/commit-links.sh
index d2cd2b3..5881952 100755
--- a/filters/commit-links.sh
+++ b/filters/commit-links.sh
@@ -15,11 +15,14 @@
 # CGIT_REPO_CLONE_URL  ( = repo.clone-url setting )
 #
 
+regex=''
+
 # This expression generates links to commits referenced by their SHA1.
 regex=$regex'
-s|\b([0-9a-fA-F]{8,40})\b|<a href="./?id=\1">\1</a>|g'
+s|\b([0-9a-fA-F]{7,40})\b|<a href="./?id=\1">\1</a>|g'
+
 # This expression generates links to a fictional bugtracker.
 regex=$regex'
-s| #([0-9]+)\b|<a href="http://bugs.example.com/?bug=\1">#\1</a>|g'
+s|#([0-9]+)\b|<a href="http://bugs.example.com/?bug=\1">#\1</a>|g'
 
 sed -re "$regex"
diff --git a/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh b/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh
index 6283ce9..5fcc9c9 100755
--- a/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh
+++ b/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh
@@ -42,4 +42,32 @@ EXTENSION="${BASENAME##*.}"
 # map Makefile and Makefile.* to .mk
 [ "${BASENAME%%.*}" == "Makefile" ] && EXTENSION=mk
 
+# highlight versions 2 and 3 have different commandline options. Specifically,
+# the -X option that is used for version 2 is replaced by the -O xhtml option
+# for version 3.
+#
+# Version 2 can be found (for example) on EPEL 5, while version 3 can be
+# found (for example) on EPEL 6.
+#
+# This is for version 2
 exec highlight --force -f -I -X -S $EXTENSION 2>/dev/null
+
+# This is for version 3
+#
+# On CentOS 6.2 (using highlight from EPEL), when highlight doesn't know about
+# an EXTENSION, it outputs a lua error and _no_ text, even when the --force
+# option is used.
+#
+# Also see the bug reports at:
+# http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3490017&group_id=215618&atid=1034391
+# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795567
+#
+# This workaround can be removed when the bug is fixed upstream and the new
+# version is packaged in most distributions.
+#
+# The workaround is to set the extension to 'txt' (plain text) when highlight
+# exits with an error (doesn't know the format).
+#
+#echo "test" | highlight -f -I -O xhtml -S $EXTENSION &>/dev/null
+#[ ${?} -ne 0 ] && EXTENSION="txt"
+#exec highlight --force -f -I -O xhtml -S $EXTENSION 2>/dev/null