On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 10:56 AM Tobias Klauser <tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > v2: > - move whitespace trimming below defined'ness check as per Eric Sunshine's > review comment > diff --git a/perl/Git/SVN.pm b/perl/Git/SVN.pm > @@ -1494,6 +1494,7 @@ sub check_author { > if (!defined $author || length $author == 0) { > $author = '(no author)'; > } > + $author =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g; Hmm, this still looks questionable. I would have expected the whitespace trimming to be below the 'defined' check but before the length($author)==0 check (since the length might become 0 once whitespace is trimmed). Also, a minor style/comprehension nit: Perhaps I'm just old-school, but for me, the idiom: $author =~ s/^\s+//; $author =~ s/\s+$//; is easier to understand at-a-glance as trimming leading and trailing whitespace than the more compact (noisy) expression this patch uses. But that's just a subjective review comment, not necessarily actionable.