Preserve quoted leading and trailing single-line whitespace

EliahKagan · EliahKagan · commit bd2b930503ad · 2025-06-07T01:26:55.000-04:00
At least in a single line, whitespace in a double-quoted value in a configuration file, like `name = " abc def "`, would presumably be intended. This removes the `strip()` call that is applied to text `ConfigParser` obtained by removing the double quotes around it. This slightly refines the changes in #2035 by dropping the `strip()` call while continuing to remove opening and closing double quotes.
diff --git a/git/config.py b/git/config.py
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ def string_decode(v: str) -> str:
                         is_multi_line = True
                         optval = string_decode(optval[1:])
                     elif len(optval) > 1 and optval[0] == '"' and optval[-1] == '"':
-                        optval = optval[1:-1].strip()
+                        optval = optval[1:-1]
                     # END handle multi-line
                     # Preserves multiple values for duplicate optnames.
                     cursect.add(optname, optval)
