From f0b894443040cb222fbd80d9661cfa7583a9164f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dragan Simic Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 07:06:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] config: really keep value-internal whitespace verbatim Fix a bug in function parse_value() that prevented whitespace characters (i.e. spaces and horizontal tabs) found inside configuration option values from being parsed and returned in their original form. The bug caused any number of consecutive whitespace characters to be wrongly "squashed" into the same number of space characters. This bug was introduced back in July 2009, in commit ebdaae372b46 ("config: Keep inner whitespace verbatim"). Further investigation showed that setting a configuration value, by invoking git-config(1), converts value-internal horizontal tabs into "\t" escape sequences, which the buggy value-parsing logic in function parse_value() didn't "squash" into spaces. That's why the test included in the ebdaae37 commit passed, which presumably made the bug remain undetected for this long. On the other hand, value-internal literal horizontal tab characters, found in a configuration file edited by hand, do get "squashed" by the value-parsing logic, so the right choice was to fix this bug by making the value-internal whitespace characters preserved verbatim. Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- config.c | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/config.c b/config.c index e6741df5bf..b1fc12b3a2 100644 --- a/config.c +++ b/config.c @@ -819,7 +819,8 @@ static int get_next_char(struct config_source *cs) static char *parse_value(struct config_source *cs) { - int quote = 0, comment = 0, space = 0; + int quote = 0, comment = 0; + size_t trim_len = 0; strbuf_reset(&cs->value); for (;;) { @@ -829,13 +830,17 @@ static char *parse_value(struct config_source *cs) cs->linenr--; return NULL; } + if (trim_len) + strbuf_setlen(&cs->value, trim_len); return cs->value.buf; } if (comment) continue; if (isspace(c) && !quote) { + if (!trim_len) + trim_len = cs->value.len; if (cs->value.len) - space++; + strbuf_addch(&cs->value, c); continue; } if (!quote) { @@ -844,8 +849,8 @@ static char *parse_value(struct config_source *cs) continue; } } - for (; space; space--) - strbuf_addch(&cs->value, ' '); + if (trim_len) + trim_len = 0; if (c == '\\') { c = get_next_char(cs); switch (c) { -- 2.39.5