Re: [RFC 0/1] mailinfo: de-quote quoted-pair in header fields

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 14, 2016, 05:54 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqmvjbrpp4.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160914050919.qhv2gxzjyj5ydpub@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> It has been a while since I looked at rfc2822, but aren't the quoting
> and syntax rules different for addresses versus other headers? We would
> not want to dequote a Subject header, I think.

You're absolutely right. RFC2822 does not quite _want_ to dequote anything. As you pointed out in a separate message, we are the one who want to strip out "" quoting when mailinfo says

	Author: "Jeff King"

to its standard output (aka "info"), and turn it into

	GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='Jeff King'

and do so ONLY for the author name.

So I would think it is the responsibility of the one that reads the "info" file that is produced by mailinfo to dequote the backslash thing if the mailinfo gave us

	Author: "Jeff \"Peff\" King"