Auto-quote config values in config.c:store_write_pair()

Suggested by Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> on the list.

When we send a value to store_write_pair(), make sure that the value
that gets read out matches the one passed in.  This means that for any
value that contains leading or trailing whitespace or any comment
character (# and ;), we need to surround it in quotes.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 9ded954496..2cd0263e13 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -513,11 +513,23 @@ static int store_write_pair(int fd, const char* key, const char* value)
 {
 	int i;
 	int length = strlen(key+store.baselen+1);
+	int quote = 0;
+
+	/* Check to see if the value needs to be quoted. */
+	if (value[0] == ' ')
+		quote = 1;
+	for (i = 0; value[i]; i++)
+		if (value[i] == ';' || value[i] == '#')
+			quote = 1;
+	if (value[i-1] == ' ')
+		quote = 1;
 
 	if (write_in_full(fd, "\t", 1) != 1 ||
 	    write_in_full(fd, key+store.baselen+1, length) != length ||
 	    write_in_full(fd, " = ", 3) != 3)
 		return 0;
+	if (quote && write_in_full(fd, "\"", 1) != 1)
+		return 0;
 	for (i = 0; value[i]; i++)
 		switch (value[i]) {
 		case '\n':
@@ -537,6 +549,8 @@ static int store_write_pair(int fd, const char* key, const char* value)
 				return 0;
 			break;
 		}
+	if (quote && write_in_full(fd, "\"", 1) != 1)
+		return 0;
 	if (write_in_full(fd, "\n", 1) != 1)
 		return 0;
 	return 1;