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Decode Git-supported quoted value escapes directly instead of routing UTF-8 text
through Python unicode_escape. This preserves newlines, quotes, backslashes, and
non-ASCII text when an unrelated config update rewrites existing values.

Quote values containing Git comment delimiters (# and ;) or leading/trailing
whitespace so Git does not truncate or trim their data. Escape LF, tab,
backspace, quote, and backslash, while rejecting carriage returns and NULs
before opening the destination.

Regression coverage round-trips these values through both GitPython and git
config and verifies unsafe control characters cannot alter the original file.
Behavior follows Git config.c parse_value() and write_pair().

Assisted-by: GPT 5.6
Co-authored-by: GPT 5.6 <codex@openai.com>

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GHSA-v6xg-m7rh-r365 (closed) reports that quoted patch paths can crash or
silently change when an escaped literal backslash precedes digits.

Add regression coverage distinguishing literal backslashes from real
octal byte escapes, then decode Git's C-style quoting sequentially so
one escape cannot be reinterpreted by a later pass. Match Git baseline
cf5497b14c5a24f10c13f7e0ee85cb95af13ea6a quote.c::unquote_c_style by
accepting octal bytes only when all three digits are valid and the first
is 0 through 3.

Assisted-by: GPT 5.6
Co-authored-by: GPT 5.6 <codex@openai.com>

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Preserve Git config escape semantics

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GHSA-g5vv-9gxw-82hx reports quadratic backtracking when an actor
identity contains a long unterminated email delimiter.

Add a regression that exercises a 20,000-character malformed identity,
then replace both actor regexes with direct delimiter scans following
Git's first-opening, first-closing delimiter behavior. Keep GitPython's
whole-string fallback when either delimiter is absent.

Reference Git baseline cf5497b14c5a24f10c13f7e0ee85cb95
ident.c::split_ident_line and its invalid-committer cases in
t/t9300-fast-import.sh. Also reference gix-actor's signature decoder and
lenient identity tests.

Assisted-by: GPT 5.6
Co-authored-by: GPT 5.6 <codex@openai.com>

Harden diff path and actor identity parsing