From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 06:13:28 GMT
Subject: Re: git rev-list %an, %ae, %at bug in v1.7.10.1 and beyond
Message-ID: <20120522061328.GA17896@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120522055811.GA10597@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 01:58:11AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

>   $ git init
>   $ echo content >foo && git add foo
>   $ GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=a git commit -m msg
>    Author:  <>
>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>    create mode 100644 foo
> 
> Uh oh, that's odd. And worse:
> 
>   $ git log -1 --format='|%an <%ae>|'
>   | <>|
> 
> So there is definitely a bug. The unicode thing is a red herring, and if
> there was any unicode at some point, git stripped it out when making the
> commit. The real regression seems to be in single-character names.
> 
> I'll see if I can find the bug.

Both are caused by an off-by-one error in split_ident_line. I just
posted a patch.

-Peff