From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:56:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] shortlog: fix segfault on empty authorname
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612091653070.2630@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20061209040421.GA29113@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Jeff King wrote:

> The old code looked backwards from the email address to parse the name,
> allowing an arbitrary number of spaces between the two. However, in the case
> of no name, we looked back too far to the 'author' (or 'Author:') header.
> Instead, remove at most one space between name and address.
> 
> The bug was triggered by commit febf7ea4bed from linux-2.6.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>

Yep, that fixes the problem.