Disable reference creation for comments surrounded by code/preformatted blocks

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/gitlab/reference_extractor.rb b/lib/gitlab/reference_extractor.rb
index 5b9772de168..1058d4c43d9 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/reference_extractor.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/reference_extractor.rb
@@ -11,7 +11,13 @@ module Gitlab
     end
 
     def analyze(string, project)
-      parse_references(string.dup, project)
+      text = string.dup
+
+      # Remove preformatted/code blocks so that references are not included
+      text.gsub!(%r{<pre>.*?</pre>|<code>.*?</code>}m) { |match| '' }
+      text.gsub!(%r{^```.*?^```}m) { |match| '' }
+
+      parse_references(text, project)
     end
 
     # Given a valid project, resolve the extracted identifiers of the requested type to