Re: [PATCH] Auto-quote config values in config.c:store_write_pair()

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 9, 2007, 11:44 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701091242330.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vps9ompix.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

[Cc'ing list]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Brian Gernhardt wrote:
> >
> >> +	if (quote)
> >> +		write(fd, "\"", 1);
> >>  	for (i = 0; value[i]; i++)
> >>  		switch (value[i]) {
> >>  		case '\n': write(fd, "\\n", 2); break;
> >> @@ -508,6 +520,8 @@ static void store_write_pair(int fd, const char* key, const char* value)
> >>  		case '"': case '\\': write(fd, "\\", 1);
> >>  		default: write(fd, value+i, 1);
> >>  	}
> >> +	if (quote)
> >> +		write(fd, "\"", 1);
> >
> > AFAICS this misses the case where you have to quote a single '"'.
> 
> 	$ git-repo-config qu.ot 'ab"cd'
>         $ git-repo-config --get qu.ot
>         ab"cd
>         $ tail -n 2 .git/config
>         [qu]
>         	ot = ab\"cd

Oooopps! Even more embarassing: you can see it in the diff (it is line 508 of the original code). And most embarassing: AFAICT I wrote the code myself!!!

So I shut up.

Ciao, Dscho