When "git rebase -i --root" creates a new root commit, it corrupts the
"author" header's timezone by repeating the last digit:
author A U Thor <author@xxxxxxxxxxx> @1112912773 -07000
This is due to two bugs.
First, write_author_script() neglects to add the closing quote to the
value of GIT_AUTHOR_DATE when generating "rebase-merge/author-script".
Second, although sq_dequote() correctly diagnoses the missing closing
quote, read_author_ident() ignores sq_dequote()'s return value and
blindly uses the result of the aborted dequote.
sq_dequote() performs dequoting in-place by removing quoting and
shifting content downward. When it detects misquoting (lack of closing
quote, in this case), it gives up and returns an error without inserting
a NUL-terminator at the end of the shifted content, which explains the
duplicated last digit in the timezone.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
sequencer.c | 7 ++++++-
t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh | 2 +-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index 78864d9072..1008f6d71a 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c
@@ -654,6 +654,7 @@ static int write_author_script(const char *message)
strbuf_addch(&buf, *(message++));
else
strbuf_addf(&buf, "'\\\\%c'", *(message++));
+ strbuf_addch(&buf, '\'');
res = write_message(buf.buf, buf.len, rebase_path_author_script(), 1);
strbuf_release(&buf);
return res;
@@ -724,7 +725,11 @@ static const char *read_author_ident(struct strbuf *buf)
eol = strchrnul(in, '\n');
*eol = '\0';
- sq_dequote(in);
+ if (!sq_dequote(in)) {
+ warning(_("bad quoting on %s value in '%s'"),
+ keys[i], rebase_path_author_script());
+ return NULL;
+ }
len = strlen(in);
if (i > 0) /* separate values by spaces */
diff --git a/t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh b/t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh
index 8509c89a26..37796bb4c1 100755
--- a/t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh
+++ b/t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh
@@ -1420,7 +1420,7 @@ test_expect_success 'valid author header after --root swap' '
set_fake_editor &&
FAKE_LINES="2 1" git rebase -i --root &&
git cat-file commit HEAD^ >out &&
- grep "^author ..* @[0-9][0-9]* [-+][0-9][0-9]*$" out
+ grep "^author ..* @[0-9][0-9]* [-+][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]$" out
'
test_done
--
2.18.0.597.ga71716f1ad
