sequencer: fix "rebase -i --root" corrupting author header timezone

When "git rebase -i --root" creates a new root commit, it corrupts the
"author" header's timezone by repeating the last digit:

    author A U Thor <author@example.com> @1112912773 -07000

This is due to two bugs.

First, write_author_script() neglects to add the closing quote to the
value of GIT_AUTHOR_DATE when generating "rebase-merge/author-script".

Second, although sq_dequote() correctly diagnoses the missing closing
quote, read_author_ident() ignores sq_dequote()'s return value and
blindly uses the result of the aborted dequote.

sq_dequote() performs dequoting in-place by removing quoting and
shifting content downward. When it detects misquoting (lack of closing
quote, in this case), it gives up and returns an error without inserting
a NUL-terminator at the end of the shifted content, which explains the
duplicated last digit in the timezone.

(Note that the "@" preceding the timestamp is a separate bug which
will be fixed subsequently.)

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index df11136..2b66b85 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c
@@ -651,6 +651,7 @@ missing_author:
 			strbuf_addch(&buf, *(message++));
 		else
 			strbuf_addf(&buf, "'\\\\%c'", *(message++));
+	strbuf_addch(&buf, '\'');
 	res = write_message(buf.buf, buf.len, rebase_path_author_script(), 1);
 	strbuf_release(&buf);
 	return res;
@@ -721,7 +722,11 @@ static const char *read_author_ident(struct strbuf *buf)
 
 		eol = strchrnul(in, '\n');
 		*eol = '\0';
-		sq_dequote(in);
+		if (!sq_dequote(in)) {
+			warning(_("bad quoting on %s value in '%s'"),
+				keys[i], rebase_path_author_script());
+			return NULL;
+		}
 		len = strlen(in);
 
 		if (i > 0) /* separate values by spaces */