Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> The only consumer of a faulty author script written by the sequencer
>> is read_env_script() in sequencer.c which doesn't worry about
>> checking that quotes are paired.
>
> That's not quite true anymore, recently another consumer
> read_author_ident() was added which uses sq_dequote() instead of
> custom code. Looking more closely at write_author_script() the quoting
> of single quotes is buggy they are escaped as \\' instead of \'.
That's embarrassing re-invention (instead of reuse) with additional
bug X-<. It seems that all of that blame to d87d48b2 ("sequencer:
learn about the special "fake root commit" handling", 2018-05-04).
We should fix both broken writer and readers that compensate for
breakage in the writer, I guess. Sigh...
