"git commit --help" said "--no-verify" is only about skipping the
pre-commit hook, and failed to say that it also skipped the
commit-msg hook.
* os/no-verify-skips-commit-msg-too:
commit: describe that --no-verify skips the commit-msg hook in the help text
A helper function that takes the contents of a commit object and
finds its subject line did not ignore leading blank lines, as is
commonly done by other codepaths. Make it ignore leading blank
lines to match.
* js/find-commit-subject-ignore-leading-blanks:
reset --hard: skip blank lines when reporting the commit subject
sequencer: use skip_blank_lines() to find the commit subject
commit -C: skip blank lines at the beginning of the message
commit.c: make find_commit_subject() more robust
pretty: make the skip_blank_lines() function public
This brings the short help in line with the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Consistent with the pretty-printing machinery, we skip leading blank
lines (if any) of existing commit messages.
While Git itself only produces commit objects with a single empty line
between commit header and commit message, it is legal to have more than
one blank line (i.e. lines containing only white space, or no
characters) at the beginning of the commit message, and the
pretty-printing code already handles that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a follow up commit for f932729c (memoize common git-path
"constant" files, 10-Aug-2015).
The many function calls to git_path() are replaced by
git_path_commit_editmsg() and which thus eliminates the need to repeatedly
compute the location of "COMMIT_EDITMSG".
Mentored-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The executable bit will not be detected (and therefore will not be
set) for paths in a repository with `core.filemode` set to false,
though the users may still wish to add files as executable for
compatibility with other users who _do_ have `core.filemode`
functionality. For example, Windows users adding shell scripts may
wish to add them as executable for compatibility with users on
non-Windows.
Although this can be done with a plumbing command
(`git update-index --add --chmod=+x foo`), teaching the `git-add`
command allows users to set a file executable with a command that
they're already familiar with.
Signed-off-by: Edward Thomson <ethomson@edwardthomson.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git commit" learned to pay attention to "commit.verbose"
configuration variable and act as if "--verbose" option was
given from the command line.
* pb/commit-verbose-config:
commit: add a commit.verbose config variable
t7507-commit-verbose: improve test coverage by testing number of diffs
parse-options.c: make OPTION_COUNTUP respect "unspecified" values
t/t7507: improve test coverage
t0040-parse-options: improve test coverage
test-parse-options: print quiet as integer
t0040-test-parse-options.sh: fix style issues
Add commit.verbose configuration variable as a convenience for those
who always prefer --verbose.
Add tests to check the behavior introduced by this commit and also to
verify that behavior of status doesn't break because of this commit.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git commit" misbehaved in a few minor ways when an empty message
is given via -m '', all of which has been corrected.
* ad/commit-have-m-option:
commit: do not ignore an empty message given by -m ''
commit: --amend -m '' silently fails to wipe message
When f9568530 (builtin-commit: resurrect behavior for multiple -m
options, 2007-11-11) converted a "char *message" to "struct strbuf
message" to hold the messages given with the "-m" option, it
incorrectly changed the checks "did we get a message with the -m
option?" to "is message.len 0?". Later, we noticed one breakage
from this change and corrected it with 25206778 (commit: don't start
editor if empty message is given with -m, 2013-05-25).
However, "we got a message with -m, even though an empty one, so we
shouldn't be launching an editor" was not the only breakage.
* "git commit --amend -m '' --allow-empty", even though it looks
strange, is a valid request to amend the commit to have no
message at all. Due to the misdetection of the presence of -m on
the command line, we ended up keeping the log messsage from the
original commit.
* "git commit -m "$msg" -F file" should be rejected whether $msg is
an empty string or not, but due to the same bug, was not rejected
when $msg is empty.
* "git -c template=file -m "$msg"" should ignore the template even
when $msg is empty, but it didn't and instead used the contents
from the template file.
Correct these by checking have_option_m, which the earlier 25206778
introduced to fix the same bug.
Reported-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git merge --squash" stopped due to conflict, the concluding
"git commit" failed to read in the SQUASH_MSG that shows the log
messages from all the squashed commits.
* ss/commit-squash-msg:
commit: do not lose SQUASH_MSG contents
When concluding a conflicted "git merge --squash", the command
failed to read SQUASH_MSG that was prepared by "git merge", and
showed only the "# Conflicts:" list of conflicted paths.
Place the contents from SQUASH_MSG at the beginning, just like we
show the commit log skeleton first when concluding a normal merge,
and then show the "# Conflicts:" list, to help the user write the
log message for the resulting commit.
Test by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>.
Signed-off-by: Sven Strickroth <sven@cs-ware.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename detection is a very convenient feature, and new users shouldn't
have to dig in the documentation to benefit from it.
Potential objections to activating rename detection are that it
sometimes fail, and it is sometimes slow. But rename detection is
already activated by default in several cases like "git status" and "git
merge", so activating diff.renames does not fundamentally change the
situation. When the rename detection fails, it now fails consistently
between "git diff" and "git status".
This setting does not affect plumbing commands, hence well-written
scripts will not be affected.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The preliminary clean-up for jc/peace-with-crlf topic.
* jc/strbuf-getline:
strbuf: give strbuf_getline() to the "most text friendly" variant
checkout-index: there are only two possible line terminations
update-index: there are only two possible line terminations
check-ignore: there are only two possible line terminations
check-attr: there are only two possible line terminations
mktree: there are only two possible line terminations
strbuf: introduce strbuf_getline_{lf,nul}()
strbuf: make strbuf_getline_crlf() global
strbuf: miniscule style fix
Some codepaths used fopen(3) when opening a fixed path in $GIT_DIR
(e.g. COMMIT_EDITMSG) that is meant to be left after the command is
done. This however did not work well if the repository is set to
be shared with core.sharedRepository and the umask of the previous
user is tighter. They have been made to work better by calling
unlink(2) and retrying after fopen(3) fails with EPERM.
* js/fopen-harder:
Handle more file writes correctly in shared repos
commit: allow editing the commit message even in shared repos
The strbuf_getline() interface allows a byte other than LF or NUL as
the line terminator, but this is only because I wrote these
codepaths anticipating that there might be a value other than NUL
and LF that could be useful when I introduced line_termination long
time ago. No useful caller that uses other value has emerged.
By now, it is clear that the interface is overly broad without a
good reason. Many codepaths have hardcoded preference to read
either LF terminated or NUL terminated records from their input, and
then call strbuf_getline() with LF or NUL as the third parameter.
This step introduces two thin wrappers around strbuf_getline(),
namely, strbuf_getline_lf() and strbuf_getline_nul(), and
mechanically rewrites these call sites to call either one of
them. The changes contained in this patch are:
* introduction of these two functions in strbuf.[ch]
* mechanical conversion of all callers to strbuf_getline() with
either '\n' or '\0' as the third parameter to instead call the
respective thin wrapper.
After this step, output from "git grep 'strbuf_getline('" would
become a lot smaller. An interim goal of this series is to make
this an empty set, so that we can have strbuf_getline_crlf() take
over the shorter name strbuf_getline().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was pointed out by Yaroslav Halchenko that the file containing the
commit message is writable only by the owner, which means that we have
to rewrite it from scratch in a shared repository.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
More transition from "unsigned char[40]" to "struct object_id".
This needed a few merge fixups, but is mostly disentangled from other
topics.
* bc/object-id:
remote: convert functions to struct object_id
Remove get_object_hash.
Convert struct object to object_id
Add several uses of get_object_hash.
object: introduce get_object_hash macro.
ref_newer: convert to use struct object_id
push_refs_with_export: convert to struct object_id
get_remote_heads: convert to struct object_id
parse_fetch: convert to use struct object_id
add_sought_entry_mem: convert to struct object_id
Convert struct ref to use object_id.
sha1_file: introduce has_object_file helper.
Convert all instances of get_object_hash to use an appropriate reference
to the hash member of the oid member of struct object. This provides no
functional change, as it is essentially a macro substitution.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Convert most instances where the sha1 member of struct object is
dereferenced to use get_object_hash. Most instances that are passed to
functions that have versions taking struct object_id, such as
get_sha1_hex/get_oid_hex, or instances that can be trivially converted
to use struct object_id instead, are not converted.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Since ec7dbd145 (receive-pack: allow hooks to ignore its
standard input stream) the pre-receive and post-receive
hooks ignore SIGPIPE. Do the same for the remaining hooks
pre-push and post-rewrite, which read from standard input.
The same arguments for ignoring SIGPIPE apply.
Include test by Jeff King which checks that SIGPIPE does not
cause pre-push hook failure. With the use of git update-ref
--stdin it is fast enough to be enabled by default.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <clemens.buchacher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
This function is also used in other builtins than stripspace, so it
makes sense to have it in a more generic place. Since it operates
on an strbuf and the function is declared in strbuf.h, move it to
strbuf.c and add the corresponding prefix to its name, just like
other API functions in the strbuf_* family.
Also switch all current users of stripspace() to the new function
name and keep a temporary wrapper inline function for any topic
branches still using stripspace().
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When re-priming the cache-tree opportunistically while committing
the in-core index as-is, we mistakenly invalidated the in-core
index too aggressively, causing the experimental split-index code
to unnecessarily rewrite the on-disk index file(s).
* dt/commit-preserve-base-index-upon-opportunistic-cache-tree-update:
commit: don't rewrite shared index unnecessarily
Remove a cache invalidation which would cause the shared index to be
rewritten on as-is commits.
When the cache-tree has changed, we need to update it. But we don't
necessarily need to update the shared index. So setting
active_cache_changed to SOMETHING_CHANGED is unnecessary. Instead, we
let update_main_cache_tree just update the CACHE_TREE_CHANGED bit.
In order to test this, make test-dump-split-index not segfault on
missing replace_bitmap/delete_bitmap. This new codepath is not called
now that the test passes, but is necessary to avoid a segfault when the
new test is run with the old builtin/commit.c code.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Acked-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "lockfile" API has been rebuilt on top of a new "tempfile" API.
* mh/tempfile:
credential-cache--daemon: use tempfile module
credential-cache--daemon: delete socket from main()
gc: use tempfile module to handle gc.pid file
lock_repo_for_gc(): compute the path to "gc.pid" only once
diff: use tempfile module
setup_temporary_shallow(): use tempfile module
write_shared_index(): use tempfile module
register_tempfile(): new function to handle an existing temporary file
tempfile: add several functions for creating temporary files
prepare_tempfile_object(): new function, extracted from create_tempfile()
tempfile: a new module for handling temporary files
commit_lock_file(): use get_locked_file_path()
lockfile: add accessor get_lock_file_path()
lockfile: add accessors get_lock_file_fd() and get_lock_file_fp()
create_bundle(): duplicate file descriptor to avoid closing it twice
lockfile: move documentation to lockfile.h and lockfile.c
One of the most common uses of git_path() is to pass a
constant, like git_path("MERGE_MSG"). This has two
drawbacks:
1. The return value is a static buffer, and the lifetime
is dependent on other calls to git_path, etc.
2. There's no compile-time checking of the pathname. This
is OK for a one-off (after all, we have to spell it
correctly at least once), but many of these constant
strings appear throughout the code.
This patch introduces a series of functions to "memoize"
these strings, which are essentially globals for the
lifetime of the program. We compute the value once, take
ownership of the buffer, and return the cached value for
subsequent calls. cache.h provides a helper macro for
defining these functions as one-liners, and defines a few
common ones for global use.
Using a macro is a little bit gross, but it does nicely
document the purpose of the functions. If we need to touch
them all later (e.g., because we learned how to change the
git_dir variable at runtime, and need to invalidate all of
the stored values), it will be much easier to have the
complete list.
Note that the shared-global functions have separate, manual
declarations. We could do something clever with the macros
(e.g., expand it to a declaration in some places, and a
declaration _and_ a definition in path.c). But there aren't
that many, and it's probably better to stay away from
too-magical macros.
Likewise, if we abandon the C preprocessor in favor of
generating these with a script, we could get much fancier.
E.g., normalizing "FOO/BAR-BAZ" into "git_path_foo_bar_baz".
But the small amount of saved typing is probably not worth
the resulting confusion to readers who want to grep for the
function's definition.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In preparation for adding date modes that may carry extra
information beyond the mode itself, this patch converts the
date_mode enum into a struct.
Most of the conversion is fairly straightforward; we pass
the struct as a pointer and dereference the type field where
necessary. Locations that declare a date_mode can use a "{}"
constructor. However, the tricky case is where we use the
enum labels as constants, like:
show_date(t, tz, DATE_NORMAL);
Ideally we could say:
show_date(t, tz, &{ DATE_NORMAL });
but of course C does not allow that. Likewise, we cannot
cast the constant to a struct, because we need to pass an
actual address. Our options are basically:
1. Manually add a "struct date_mode d = { DATE_NORMAL }"
definition to each caller, and pass "&d". This makes
the callers uglier, because they sometimes do not even
have their own scope (e.g., they are inside a switch
statement).
2. Provide a pre-made global "date_normal" struct that can
be passed by address. We'd also need "date_rfc2822",
"date_iso8601", and so forth. But at least the ugliness
is defined in one place.
3. Provide a wrapper that generates the correct struct on
the fly. The big downside is that we end up pointing to
a single global, which makes our wrapper non-reentrant.
But show_date is already not reentrant, so it does not
matter.
This patch implements 3, along with a minor macro to keep
the size of the callers sane.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code clean-up for xdg configuration path support.
* pt/xdg-config-path:
path.c: remove home_config_paths()
git-config: replace use of home_config_paths()
git-commit: replace use of home_config_paths()
credential-store.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
dir.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
attr.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
path.c: implement xdg_config_home()
t0302: "unreadable" test needs POSIXPERM
t0302: test credential-store support for XDG_CONFIG_HOME
git-credential-store: support XDG_CONFIG_HOME
git-credential-store: support multiple credential files
Teach the index to optionally remember already seen untracked files
to speed up "git status" in a working tree with tons of cruft.
* nd/untracked-cache: (24 commits)
git-status.txt: advertisement for untracked cache
untracked cache: guard and disable on system changes
mingw32: add uname()
t7063: tests for untracked cache
update-index: test the system before enabling untracked cache
update-index: manually enable or disable untracked cache
status: enable untracked cache
untracked-cache: temporarily disable with $GIT_DISABLE_UNTRACKED_CACHE
untracked cache: mark index dirty if untracked cache is updated
untracked cache: print stats with $GIT_TRACE_UNTRACKED_STATS
untracked cache: avoid racy timestamps
read-cache.c: split racy stat test to a separate function
untracked cache: invalidate at index addition or removal
untracked cache: load from UNTR index extension
untracked cache: save to an index extension
ewah: add convenient wrapper ewah_serialize_strbuf()
untracked cache: don't open non-existent .gitignore
untracked cache: mark what dirs should be recursed/saved
untracked cache: record/validate dir mtime and reuse cached output
untracked cache: make a wrapper around {open,read,close}dir()
...
Code clean-up for xdg configuration path support.
* pt/xdg-config-path:
path.c: remove home_config_paths()
git-config: replace use of home_config_paths()
git-commit: replace use of home_config_paths()
credential-store.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
dir.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
attr.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
path.c: implement xdg_config_home()
A replacement for contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir that does not
rely on symbolic links and make sharing of objects and refs safer
by making the borrowee and borrowers aware of each other.
* nd/multiple-work-trees: (41 commits)
prune --worktrees: fix expire vs worktree existence condition
t1501: fix test with split index
t2026: fix broken &&-chain
t2026 needs procondition SANITY
git-checkout.txt: a note about multiple checkout support for submodules
checkout: add --ignore-other-wortrees
checkout: pass whole struct to parse_branchname_arg instead of individual flags
git-common-dir: make "modules/" per-working-directory directory
checkout: do not fail if target is an empty directory
t2025: add a test to make sure grafts is working from a linked checkout
checkout: don't require a work tree when checking out into a new one
git_path(): keep "info/sparse-checkout" per work-tree
count-objects: report unused files in $GIT_DIR/worktrees/...
gc: support prune --worktrees
gc: factor out gc.pruneexpire parsing code
gc: style change -- no SP before closing parenthesis
checkout: clean up half-prepared directories in --to mode
checkout: reject if the branch is already checked out elsewhere
prune: strategies for linked checkouts
checkout: support checking out into a new working directory
...
Since home_config_paths() combines two distinct functionality already
implemented by expand_user_path() and xdg_config_home(), and hides the
home config file path ~/.gitconfig. Make the code more explicit by
replacing the use of home_config_paths() with expand_user_path() and
xdg_config_home().
Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
update_index_if_able() is moved down so that the updated untracked
cache could be written out.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Simplify the ref transaction API around how "the ref should be
pointing at this object" is specified.
* mh/refs-have-new:
refs.h: remove duplication in function docstrings
update_ref(): improve documentation
ref_transaction_verify(): new function to check a reference's value
ref_transaction_delete(): check that old_sha1 is not null_sha1
ref_transaction_create(): check that new_sha1 is valid
commit: avoid race when creating orphan commits
commit: add tests of commit races
ref_transaction_delete(): remove "have_old" parameter
ref_transaction_update(): remove "have_old" parameter
struct ref_update: move "have_old" into "flags"
refs.c: change some "flags" to "unsigned int"
refs: remove the gap in the REF_* constant values
refs: move REF_DELETING to refs.c
If HEAD doesn't point at anything during the initial check, then we
should make sure that it *still* doesn't point at anything when we are
ready to update the reference. Otherwise, another process might commit
while we are working (e.g., while we are waiting for the user to edit
the commit message) and we will silently overwrite it.
This fixes a failing test in t7516.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead, verify the reference's old value if and only if old_sha1 is
non-NULL.
ref_transaction_delete() will get the same treatment in a moment.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The error message from "git commit", when a non-existing author
name was given as value to the "--author=" parameter, has been
reworded to avoid misunderstanding.
* mg/commit-author-no-match-malformed-message:
commit: reword --author error message
"git blame HEAD -- missing" failed to correctly say "HEAD" when it
tried to say "No such path 'missing' in HEAD".
* jk/blame-commit-label:
blame.c: fix garbled error message
use xstrdup_or_null to replace ternary conditionals
builtin/commit.c: use xstrdup_or_null instead of envdup
builtin/apply.c: use xstrdup_or_null instead of null_strdup
git-compat-util: add xstrdup_or_null helper
If an --author argument is specified but does not contain a '>' then git tries
to find the argument within the existing authors; and gives the error
message "No existing author found with '%s'" if there is no match.
This is confusing for users who try to specify a valid complete author
name.
Rename the error message to make it clearer that the failure has two
reasons in this case.
(This codepath is touched only when we know already that the argument
cannot be a completely wellformed author ident.)
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch puts the usage info strings that were not already in docopt-
like format into docopt-like format, which will be a litle easier for
end users and a lot easier for translators. Changes include:
- Placing angle brackets around fill-in-the-blank parameters
- Putting dashes in multiword parameter names
- Adding spaces to [-f|--foobar] to make [-f | --foobar]
- Replacing <foobar>* with [<foobar>...]
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The only reason for envdup to be its own function is that we
have to save the result in a temporary string. With
xstrdup_or_null, we can feed the result of getenv()
directly.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git interpret-trailers" learned to properly handle the
"Conflicts:" block at the end.
* cc/interpret-trailers-more:
trailer: add test with an old style conflict block
trailer: reuse ignore_non_trailer() to ignore conflict lines
commit: make ignore_non_trailer() non static
merge & sequencer: turn "Conflicts:" hint into a comment
builtin/commit.c: extract ignore_non_trailer() helper function
merge & sequencer: unify codepaths that write "Conflicts:" hint
builtin/merge.c: drop a parameter that is never used
To figure out the author ident for a commit, we call
determine_author_info(). This function collects information
from the environment, other commits (in the case of
"--amend" or "-c/-C"), and the "--author" option. It then
uses fmt_ident to generate the final ident string that goes
into the commit object. fmt_ident is therefore responsible
for any quality or validation checks on what is allowed to
go into a commit.
Before returning, though, we call split_ident_line on the
result, and feed the individual components to hooks via the
GIT_AUTHOR_* variables. Furthermore, we do extra validation
by feeding the split to sane_ident_split(), which is pickier
than fmt_ident (in particular, it will complain about an empty
email field). If this parsing or validation fails, we skip
updating the environment variables.
This is bad, because it means that hooks may silently see a
different ident than what we are putting into the commit. We
should drop the extra sane_ident_split checks entirely, and
take whatever fmt_ident has fed us (and what will go into
the commit object).
If parsing fails, we should actually abort here rather than
continuing (and feeding the hooks bogus data). However,
split_ident_line should never fail here. The ident was just
generated by fmt_ident, so we know that it's sane. We can
use assert_split_ident to double-check this.
Note that we also teach that assertion to check that we
found a date (it always should, but until now, no caller
cared whether we found a date or not). Checking the return
value of sane_ident_split is enough to ensure we have the
name/email pointers set, and checking date_begin is enough
to know that all of the date/tz variables are set.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we generate the commit-message template, we try to
report an author or committer ident that will be of interest
to the user: an author that does not match the committer, or
a committer that was auto-configured.
When doing so, if we encounter what we consider to be a
bogus ident, we immediately die. This is a bad idea, because
our use of the idents here is purely informational. Any
ident rules should be enforced elsewhere, because commits
that do not invoke the editor will not even hit this code
path (e.g., "git commit -mfoo" would work, but "git commit"
would not). So at best, we are redundant with other checks,
and at worse, we actively prevent commits that should
otherwise be allowed.
We should therefore do the minimal parsing we can to get a
value and not do any validation (i.e., drop the call to
sane_ident_split()).
In theory we could notice when even our minimal parsing
fails to work, and do the sane thing for each check (e.g.,
if we have an author but can't parse the committer, assume
they are different and print the author). But we can
actually simplify this even further.
We know that the author and committer strings we are parsing
have been generated by us earlier in the program, and
therefore they must be parseable. We could just call
split_ident_line without even checking its return value,
knowing that it will put _something_ in the name/mail
fields. Of course, to protect ourselves against future
changes to the code, it makes sense to turn this into an
assert, so we are not surprised if our assumption fails.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
