Re: [PATCH 09/18] fsck: handle multiple authors in commits specially

> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > This problem has been detected in the wild, and is the primary reason
> > to introduce an option to demote certain fsck errors to warnings. Let's
> > offer to ignore this particular problem specifically.
> > ...
> > +	while (skip_prefix(buffer, "author ", &buffer)) {
> > +		err = report(options, &commit->object, FSCK_MSG_MULTIPLE_AUTHORS, "invalid format - multiple 'author' lines");
> > +		if (err)
> > +			return err;
> 
> If we have an option to demote this to a warning, wouldn't we want
> to do the same fsck_ident() on that secondary author line?

> > +		/* require_end_of_header() ensured that there is a newline */
> > +		buffer = strchr(buffer, '\n') + 1;
> > +	}
> >  	if (!skip_prefix(buffer, "committer ", &buffer))
> >  		return report(options, &commit->object, FSCK_MSG_MISSING_COMMITTER, "invalid format - expected 'committer' line");
> >  	err = fsck_ident(&buffer, &commit->object, options);