On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 5:35 AM Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > - Reverted the implementation to v2 with more robust detection of the > missing "'" on the last line of the author script based on a > suggestion by Eric. This means that this series needs to progress > closely with Eric's series of fixes or the fallback code will never > be called. Thanks for working on this. I haven't read the patch closely yet, but one thing caught my attention as I ran my eye over it... > +static int quoting_is_broken(const char *s, size_t n) > +{ > + /* Skip any empty lines in case the file was hand edited */ > + while (n > 0 && s[--n] == '\n') > + ; /* empty */ > + if (n > 0 && s[n] != '\'') > + return 1; To be "technically correct", I think the condition in the 'if' statement should be ">=". It should never happen in practice that the entire content of the file is a single character followed by zero or more newlines, but using the proper condition ">=" would save future readers of this code a "huh?" moment.