#include "cache.h"
 #include "quote.h"
 
+int quote_path_fully = 1;
+
 /* Help to copy the thing properly quoted for the shell safety.
  * any single quote is replaced with '\'', any exclamation point
  * is replaced with '\!', and the whole thing is enclosed in a
        }
 }
 
-char *sq_dequote(char *arg)
+char *sq_dequote_step(char *arg, char **next)
 {
        char *dst = arg;
        char *src = arg;
                switch (*++src) {
                case '\0':
                        *dst = 0;
+                       if (next)
+                               *next = NULL;
                        return arg;
                case '\\':
                        c = *++src;
                        }
                /* Fallthrough */
                default:
-                       return NULL;
+                       if (!next || !isspace(*src))
+                               return NULL;
+                       do {
+                               c = *++src;
+                       } while (isspace(c));
+                       *dst = 0;
+                       *next = src;
+                       return arg;
                }
        }
 }
 
+char *sq_dequote(char *arg)
+{
+       return sq_dequote_step(arg, NULL);
+}
+
+int sq_dequote_to_argv(char *arg, const char ***argv, int *nr, int *alloc)
+{
+       char *next = arg;
+
+       if (!*arg)
+               return 0;
+       do {
+               char *dequoted = sq_dequote_step(next, &next);
+               if (!dequoted)
+                       return -1;
+               ALLOC_GROW(*argv, *nr + 1, *alloc);
+               (*argv)[(*nr)++] = dequoted;
+       } while (next);
+
+       return 0;
+}
+
 /* 1 means: quote as octal
  * 0 means: quote as octal if (quote_path_fully)
  * -1 means: never quote