Re: [PATCH] fast-import: Document author/committer/tagger name is optional

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 31, 2009, 23:08 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhbr6rbbe.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091230150348.GF6914@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

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>    David Reiss <dreiss@facebook.com> wrote:
>    > >> author <somename> 1261454209 +0000
>    > >> committer <somename> 1261454209 +0000
>    > > a foreign system where the data might not reasonably exist.
>    > But shouldn't there still be an extra space?  One to separate "author"
>    > from the empty name, and one to separate the empty name from the email?
>    > If not, then I think this change should be made.  (I couldn't find any
>    > authoritative documentation on what constitutes a valid commit object.)
>    
>    Yes, we should do this.

Thanks.