Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Hi Junio, > > On Thu, 15 Dec 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >> >> > + strbuf_addstr(&buf, "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='"); >> > + while (*message && *message != '\n' && *message != '\r') >> > + if (skip_prefix(message, " <", &message)) >> > + break; >> > + else if (*message != '\'') >> > + strbuf_addch(&buf, *(message++)); >> > + else >> > + strbuf_addf(&buf, "'\\\\%c'", *(message++)); >> > + strbuf_addstr(&buf, "'\nGIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='"); >> > + while (*message && *message != '\n' && *message != '\r') >> > + if (skip_prefix(message, "> ", &message)) >> > + break; >> > + else if (*message != '\'') >> > + strbuf_addch(&buf, *(message++)); >> > + else >> > + strbuf_addf(&buf, "'\\\\%c'", *(message++)); >> >> Aren't these reading from an in-core commit object? >> >> If so, it should use split_ident_line() for consistency with other >> parts of the system to do this parsing. We should also already have >> a helper for simple shell-quoting in quote.c and you would want to >> use that instead of open coding like this. > > We keep coming back to the same argument. You want this quoting/dequoting > to be turned into a full-fledged parser. And I keep pointing out that the > code here does not *need* to parse but only construct an environment > block. I am afraid you are mis-reading me. I see a code that _READS_ some data format, for which we already have a parser, and then write out things based on what it read. I do not want you to make anything into a full-fledged parser---I just do not want to see an ad-hoc reader and instead the code to USE existing parser.