From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 03:03:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [Cogito] Various bugs
Message-ID: <7v8xsn50rf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060207021006.GM31278@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

>> > I'm puzzled. GIT should handle this fine.
>> >
>> > 	export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=''
>> > 	git-commit-tree $(cg-object-id -t)
>> >
>> > works as expected, but for some reason escaping me it does not work
>> > inside of cg-commit. Insights welcomed.
>> ...
> Thanks, I've updated the cg-commit version. Note that the empty
> GIT_AUTHOR_NAME problem seems to exist in git-commit as well.

It depends on what you expect, but it meets _my_ expectation:

    $ GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='' git-commit-tree $(git-write-tree) </dev/null
    Committing initial tree a2b59c3848164a2c9c3c75fbaadccaed9485da92
    ef90563fa278735af367e7606ea7eb2559121ca7
    $ git-cat-file commit ef90563fa278735af367e7606ea7eb2559121ca7
    tree a2b59c3848164a2c9c3c75fbaadccaed9485da92
    author  <junkio@cox.net> 1139281078 -0800
    committer Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 1139281078 -0800

That is, the user said GIT_AUTHOR_NAME is empty, so he gets a
commit with an empty author name.

get_ident() in ident.c does this. getenv("GIT_AUTHOR_NAME") and
friends are passed to it, and git_default_* are takenfrom gecos.
It might match some peoples' expectation (but not mine) if we
did this instead.


diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c
index 0461b8b..7ec7516 100644
--- a/ident.c
+++ b/ident.c
@@ -163,9 +163,9 @@ static const char *get_ident(const char 
 	char date[50];
 	int i;
 
-	if (!name)
+	if (!name || !*name)
 		name = git_default_name;
-	if (!email)
+	if (!email || !*email)
 		email = git_default_email;
 	strcpy(date, git_default_date);
 	if (date_str)