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[PATCH v2 2/5] fast-import: don't fail on omitted committer name

From
Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 11, 2011, 10:21 UTC
Message-ID
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In-Reply-To
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fast-import format declares 'committer_name SP' to be optional in 'committer_name SP LT email GT'. But for a (commit) object SP is obligatory while zero length committer_name is ok. git-fsck checks that SP is present, so fast-import must prepend it if the name SP part is omitted. It doesn't do so and thus for "LT email GT" ident it writes a bad object.

Name cannot contain LT or GT, ident always comes after SP in fast-import. So if ident starts with LT reuse the SP as if a valid 'SP LT email GT' ident was passed.

This fixes a ident parsing bug for a well-formed fast-import input. Though the parsing is still loose and can accept a ill-formed input.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com>
---
 fast-import.c          |    4 ++++
 t/t9300-fast-import.sh |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fast-import.c b/fast-import.c
index 7cc2262..ed1f7c9 100644
--- a/fast-import.c
+++ b/fast-import.c
@@ -1973,6 +1973,10 @@ static char *parse_ident(const char *buf)
 	size_t name_len;
 	char *ident;
 
+	/* ensure there is a space delimiter even if there is no name */
+	if (*buf == '<')
+		--buf;
+
 	gt = strrchr(buf, '>');
 	if (!gt)
 		die("Missing > in ident string: %s", buf);
diff --git a/t/t9300-fast-import.sh b/t/t9300-fast-import.sh
index 0844e9d..8f3938c 100755
--- a/t/t9300-fast-import.sh
+++ b/t/t9300-fast-import.sh
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ data <<COMMIT
 empty commit
 COMMIT
 INPUT_END
-test_expect_failure 'B: accept and fixup committer with no name' '
+test_expect_success 'B: accept and fixup committer with no name' '
 	git fast-import <input &&
 	out=$(git fsck) &&
 	echo "$out" &&
-- 
1.7.3.4
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Message 3 of 7 in “fixes for committer/author parsing/check”
  1. 0/5 fixes for committer/author parsing/checkDmitry Ivankov, Aug 11, 2011
  2. 1/5 fast-import: add input format testsDmitry Ivankov, Aug 11, 2011
  3. 2/5 fast-import: don't fail on omitted committer nameDmitry Ivankov, Aug 11, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 11, 2011
  5. 3/5 fast-import: check committer name more strictlyDmitry Ivankov, Aug 11, 2011
  6. 4/5 fsck: add a few committer name testsDmitry Ivankov, Aug 11, 2011
  7. 5/5 fsck: improve committer/author checkDmitry Ivankov, Aug 11, 2011

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