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-rw-r--r--builtin-mailinfo.c19
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/builtin-mailinfo.c b/builtin-mailinfo.c
index d4dc23a363..2789ccdf7d 100644
--- a/builtin-mailinfo.c
+++ b/builtin-mailinfo.c
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ static struct strbuf **p_hdr_data, **s_hdr_data;
#define MAX_HDR_PARSED 10
#define MAX_BOUNDARIES 5
+static void cleanup_space(struct strbuf *sb);
+
+
static void get_sane_name(struct strbuf *out, struct strbuf *name, struct strbuf *email)
{
struct strbuf *src = name;
@@ -109,11 +112,19 @@ static void handle_from(const struct strbuf *from)
strbuf_add(&email, at, el);
strbuf_remove(&f, at - f.buf, el + (at[el] ? 1 : 0));
- /* The remainder is name. It could be "John Doe <john.doe@xz>"
- * or "john.doe@xz (John Doe)", but we have removed the
- * email part, so trim from both ends, possibly removing
- * the () pair at the end.
+ /* The remainder is name. It could be
+ *
+ * - "John Doe <john.doe@xz>" (a), or
+ * - "john.doe@xz (John Doe)" (b), or
+ * - "John (zzz) Doe <john.doe@xz> (Comment)" (c)
+ *
+ * but we have removed the email part, so
+ *
+ * - remove extra spaces which could stay after email (case 'c'), and
+ * - trim from both ends, possibly removing the () pair at the end
+ * (cases 'a' and 'b').
*/
+ cleanup_space(&f);
strbuf_trim(&f);
if (f.buf[0] == '(' && f.len && f.buf[f.len - 1] == ')') {
strbuf_remove(&f, 0, 1);