Re: [PATCH] unquote_c_style: fix off-by-one.

["Adeodato Simó" <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Pierre Habouzit [Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:44:01 +0100]:

> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:10:41PM +0000, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:

> > > Thanks to Adeodato Simò for having caught this.

> > > Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>

> > Thanks.  I would have appreciated a comment that said something about what
> > external breakages this one caused, so that we can have an entry in "bugs
> > fixed" list.

> > A quick audit of the existing callers suggests that it is fast-import.

Yes, it's fast-import. In particular, trying to rename a file whose name
contains spaces:

  R "file 1.txt" file 2.txt
                ^
                unquote_c_style() eats that space, thus fast-import
                fails with:

                fatal: Missing space after source: R "file 1.txt" file 2.txt

Cheers,

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