Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > +static char *reencode_message(const char *in_msg, > + const char *in_encoding, size_t in_encoding_len) > +{ > + static struct strbuf in_encoding_buf = STRBUF_INIT; > + > + strbuf_reset(&in_encoding_buf); > + strbuf_add(&in_encoding_buf, in_encoding, in_encoding_len); > + > + return reencode_string(in_msg, "UTF-8", in_encoding_buf.buf); > +} There is only a single caller of this, so making it caller's responsibility to do the strbuf thing would allow us to make this thread-safe quite easily (and at that point we might not even have this helper function). > + committer = strstr(commit_buffer_cursor, "\ncommitter "); > if (!committer) > die("could not find committer in commit %s", > oid_to_hex(&commit->object.oid)); > committer++; > - committer_end = strchrnul(committer, '\n'); > - message = strstr(committer_end, "\n\n"); > - encoding = find_encoding(committer_end, message); > + commit_buffer_cursor = committer_end = strchrnul(committer, '\n'); > + > + /* find_commit_header() gets a `+ 1` because > + * commit_buffer_cursor points at the trailing "\n" at the end > + * of the previous line, but find_commit_header() wants a > + * pointer to the beginning of the next line. */ > + encoding = find_commit_header(commit_buffer_cursor + 1, "encoding", &encoding_len); /* * Our multi-line comments have opening and closing * slash-asterisk and asterisk-slash on their own * lines. */ What if strchrnul() returned a pointer to the terminating NUL instead of the LF at the end of the line? +1 will run past the end of the buffer. > + if (encoding) > + commit_buffer_cursor = encoding + encoding_len; > + > + message = strstr(commit_buffer_cursor, "\n\n"); Good. > @@ -685,14 +693,15 @@ static void handle_commit(struct commit *commit, struct rev_info *rev, > } else if (encoding) { > switch(reencode_mode) { > case REENCODE_YES: > - reencoded = reencode_string(message, "UTF-8", encoding); > + reencoded = reencode_message(message, encoding, encoding_len); > break; Here is where we can do the temporary strbuf to hold encoding[0, encoding_len] and directly call reencode_string(). Other than that, this step looks good to me. Thanks.