1 file changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/custom/hooks/post-receive.cgit-cache b/custom/hooks/post-receive.cgit-cache
index 8aae60b..b92683a 100755
--- a/custom/hooks/post-receive.cgit-cache
+++ b/custom/hooks/post-receive.cgit-cache
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@
 # cgit writes the request each slot answers at the head of the slot file, so
 # the hook reads it back and drops only this repository's pages and the
 # repository index, whose idle column the push changes. Other repositories
-# keep their cached pages. The cached repository scan goes too, which is what
-# makes a brand new repository appear without waiting out cache-scan-ttl.
+# keep their cached pages, bar any asked for with an escaped query. The cached
+# repository scan goes too, which is what makes a brand new repository appear
+# without waiting out cache-scan-ttl.
 #
 # The hook needs the url cgit serves this repository at. A repository that
 # scan-path finds is served at its path below scan_path, as set below, so
@@ -77,7 +78,8 @@ take() {
 # Whether the page a slot holds goes stale with this push: one of this
 # repository's, by path or by the url and r parameters, or the index. A key
 # that does not read as cgit's counts as stale, since dropping a page costs
-# only a refill.
+# only a refill, and so does a query with a % or a + in it, since only
+# decoding it would tell which repository it names.
 stale() {
 	rest=$1
 	take && take && take || return 0
@@ -99,6 +101,8 @@ stale() {
 		;;
 	*"&url=&"* | *"&url=/&"*)
 		;;
+	*"&url="*[%+]* | *"&r="*[%+]*)
+		;;
 	*"&url="* | *"&r="*)
 		return 1
 		;;