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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Swift Geek <swiftgeek@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-am includes escape characters from 'From' field
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:26:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160913152622.2xtyn6mki6p6afsg@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.yno0zli7ig5ot5@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:10:23PM +0200, Swift Geek wrote:

> git-am seems to add backslash that escapes double quote character, example
> git format-patch
> 
> From 63da989a5295214f9bd06cd7b409a86a65241eea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "Sebastian \"Swift Geek\" Grzywna" <swiftgeek@gmail.com>

This looks correct; the output of format-patch is an rfc2822 message,
and it requires this quoting.

The part you don't show, and that I think is wrong, is that if you then
"git am" this patch, it pulls the backslashes into the commit object.
The culprit looks like "parse_mail()" in builtin/am.c (or possibly
mailinfo() that it calls), which blindly picks up the name portion
without doing any rfc2822 de-quoting.

I don't think we have any existing de-quoting routines to plug in, so
fixing it would probably start with writing one.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-13 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-12 20:10 git-am includes escape characters from 'From' field Swift Geek
2016-09-13 15:26 ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-09-13 23:46   ` [RFC 0/1] de-quote quoted-strings in mailinfo Kevin Daudt
2016-09-13 23:46     ` [RFC 0/1] mailinfo: de-quote quoted-pair in header fields Kevin Daudt
2016-09-14  0:04       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-14  4:58         ` Kevin Daudt
2016-09-14  5:09         ` Jeff King
2016-09-14  5:54           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-14 16:03             ` Kevin Daudt
2016-09-14 17:43               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-14 19:17                 ` Jeff King
2016-09-14 19:30                   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-14 19:38                     ` Jeff King
2016-09-15  5:15                       ` Kevin Daudt
2016-09-15  7:18                         ` Jeff King
2016-09-14  5:13       ` Jeff King

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