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[PATCH] split_ident_line(): make best effort when parsing author/committer line

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 31, 2012, 21:57 UTC
Message-ID
<7vwr0elo77.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Commits made by ancient version of Git allowed committer without human readable name, like this (00213b17c in the kernel history):

    tree 6947dba41f8b0e7fe7bccd41a4840d6de6a27079
    parent 352dd1df32e672be4cff71132eb9c06a257872fe
    author Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> 1135223044 +0100
    committer  <sam@mars.ravnborg.org> 1136151043 +0100
    kconfig: Remove support for lxdialog --checklist
    ...
    Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

When fed such a commit, --format='%ci' fails to parse it, and gives back an empty string. Update the split_ident_line() to be a bit more lenient when parsing, but make sure the caller that wants to pick up sane value from its return value does its own validation.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 builtin/commit.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 ident.c          |  6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index 20cef95..62028e7 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -478,6 +478,20 @@ static void export_one(const char *var, const char *s, const char *e, int hack)
 	strbuf_release(&buf);
 }
 
+static int sane_ident_split(struct ident_split *person)
+{
+	if (!person->name_begin || !person->name_end ||
+	    person->name_begin == person->name_end)
+		return 0; /* no human readable name */
+	if (!person->mail_begin || !person->mail_end ||
+	    person->mail_begin == person->mail_end)
+		return 0; /* no usable mail */
+	if (!person->date_begin || !person->date_end ||
+	    !person->tz_begin || !person->tz_end)
+		return 0;
+	return 1;
+}
+
 static void determine_author_info(struct strbuf *author_ident)
 {
 	char *name, *email, *date;
@@ -530,7 +544,8 @@ static void determine_author_info(struct strbuf *author_ident)
 	if (force_date)
 		date = force_date;
 	strbuf_addstr(author_ident, fmt_ident(name, email, date, IDENT_STRICT));
-	if (!split_ident_line(&author, author_ident->buf, author_ident->len)) {
+	if (!split_ident_line(&author, author_ident->buf, author_ident->len) &&
+	    sane_ident_split(&author)) {
 		export_one("GIT_AUTHOR_NAME", author.name_begin, author.name_end, 0);
 		export_one("GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL", author.mail_begin, author.mail_end, 0);
 		export_one("GIT_AUTHOR_DATE", author.date_begin, author.tz_end, '@');
diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c
index 443c075..484e0a9 100644
--- a/ident.c
+++ b/ident.c
@@ -210,8 +210,10 @@ int split_ident_line(struct ident_split *split, const char *line, int len)
 			split->name_end = cp + 1;
 			break;
 		}
-	if (!split->name_end)
-		return status;
+	if (!split->name_end) {
+		/* no human readable name */
+		split->name_end = split->name_begin;
+	}
 
 	for (cp = split->mail_begin; cp < line + len; cp++)
 		if (*cp == '>') {
-- 
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  1. split_ident_line(): make best effort when parsing author/committer lineJunio C Hamano, Aug 31, 2012

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