require PublicInbox::Config;
my $pi_config = PublicInbox::Config->default_file;
-require File::Basename;
-my $dir = File::Basename::dirname($pi_config);
+my ($dir) = ($pi_config =~ m!(.*?/)[^/]+\z!);
require File::Path;
File::Path::mkpath($dir); # will croak on fatal errors
for my $kv (@c_extra) {
my ($k, $v) = split(/=/, $kv, 2);
- # --fixed-value for idempotent invocations
- run_die([@x, qw(--replace-all --fixed-value), "$pfx.$k", $v, $v]);
+ # git 2.30+ has --fixed-value for idempotent invocations,
+ # but that's too new to depend on in 2021. Perl quotemeta
+ # seems compatible enough for POSIX ERE which git uses
+ my $re = '^'.quotemeta($v).'$';
+ run_die([@x, qw(--replace-all), "$pfx.$k", $v, $re]);
}
# needed for git prior to v2.1.0
rename $pi_config_tmp, $pi_config or
die "failed to rename `$pi_config_tmp' to `$pi_config': $!\n";
undef $auto_unlink; # trigger ->DESTROY
+
+my $f = "$inboxdir/description";
+if (sysopen $fh, $f, O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_WRONLY) {
+ print $fh "public inbox for $address[0]\n" or die "print($f): $!";
+ close $fh or die "close($f): $!";
+}