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We used to have two versions of the email parsing code. Our parse_mailboxes (in Git.pm), and Mail::Address which we used if installed. Unfortunately, both versions have different sets of bugs, and changing the behavior of git depending on whether Mail::Address is installed was a bad idea. A first attempt to solve this was cc90750 (send-email: don't use Mail::Address, even if available, 2017-08-23), but it turns out our parse_mailboxes is too buggy for some uses. For example the lack of nested comments support breaks get_maintainer.pl in the Linux kernel tree: https://public-inbox.org/git/20171116154814.23785-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org/ This patch goes the other way: use Mail::Address anyway, but have a local copy from CPAN as a fallback, when the system one is not available. The duplicated script is small (276 lines of code) and stable in time. Maintaining the local copy should not be an issue, and will certainly be less burden than maintaining our own parse_mailboxes. Another option would be to consider Mail::Address as a hard dependency, but it's easy enough to save the trouble of extra-dependency to the end user or packager. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Perl
Executable File
25 lines
424 B
Perl
Executable File
package Git::Mail::Address;
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use 5.008;
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use strict;
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use warnings;
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=head1 NAME
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Git::Mail::Address - Wrapper for the L<Mail::Address> module, in case it's not installed
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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This module is only intended to be used for code shipping in the
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C<git.git> repository. Use it for anything else at your peril!
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=cut
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eval {
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require Mail::Address;
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1;
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} or do {
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require Git::FromCPAN::Mail::Address;
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};
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1;
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