Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:

>> Yeah, unrolling the loop is probably better.  You may even be able
>> to do so in a single pass with an extra "last > seen" pointer
>> variable without too much additional code complexity, I would think.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here.

> If you mean doing a single pass to find the final ">", that is easy,
> because we know the length of the line already and can jump past and
> start from the back.

I meant a single forward pass, like this.

 ident.c | 29 +++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c
index 7d1c79c..ff29779 100644
--- a/ident.c
+++ b/ident.c
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void strbuf_addstr_without_crud(struct strbuf *sb, 
const char *src)
  */
 int split_ident_line(struct ident_split *split, const char *line, int len)
 {
-       const char *cp;
+       const char *cp, *last_ket;
        size_t span;
        int status = -1;
 
@@ -225,29 +225,22 @@ int split_ident_line(struct ident_split *split, const 
char *line, int len)
                split->name_end = split->name_begin;
        }
 
-       for (cp = split->mail_begin; cp < line + len; cp++)
-               if (*cp == '>') {
+       for (cp = split->mail_begin, last_ket = NULL; cp < line + len; cp++) {
+               if (*cp != '>')
+                       continue;
+               if (!last_ket)
                        split->mail_end = cp;
-                       break;
-               }
+               last_ket = cp;
+       }
        if (!split->mail_end)
                return status;
 
        /*
-        * Look from the end-of-line to find the trailing ">" of the mail
-        * address, even though we should already know it as split->mail_end.
-        * This can help in cases of broken idents with an extra ">" somewhere
-        * in the email address.  Note that we are assuming the timestamp will
-        * never have a ">" in it.
-        *
-        * Note that we will always find some ">" before going off the front of
-        * the string, because will always hit the split->mail_end closing
-        * bracket.
+        * Typically, last_ket is the same as split_mail_end, but with
+        * a broken identity line, there may be multiple closing ket '>';
+        * read the timestamp after the last one.
         */
-       for (cp = line + len - 1; *cp != '>'; cp--)
-               ;
-
-       for (cp = cp + 1; cp < line + len && isspace(*cp); cp++)
+       for (cp = last_ket + 1; cp < line + len && isspace(*cp); cp++)
                ;
        if (line + len <= cp)
                goto person_only;
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