On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 02:55:29PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Or you can imagine nastier input strings, like
> 
>    Name <>-<email@host> 123456789 -0000
>    Name <ema>-<il@host> 123456789 -0000
>    Name <email@host~ 1234>56789 -0000
> 
> I am afraid that at some point "we should salvage as much as we
> can", which is a worthy goal, becomes a losing proposition.

Good point. In the worst cases, even if you cleaned things up, you might
even need to allocate a new string (like your middle one), which would
make calling split_ident_line a lot more annoying. Probably not worth
the effort.

-Peff
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