Re: [PATCH 2/2] fast-import: validate entire ident string

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Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Some importers are probably
> writing "committer <bob> ...." when pulling from systems that don't
> have a concept of name vs. email (e.g. CVS or SVN).  I highly suspect
> that requiring two spaces here will cause a lot of importers to fail.
> 
> If we really need to require two spaces,

It is not a huge deal, but ‘git commit --amend’ will die with "invalid
commit" if it does not find a “ <” sequence after the “author ”
string.  Maybe that should be changed.  Patch below.

> I think we need to honor
> the documented input format but rewrite the line inside of the
> import process to match the two space convention.

Yes, that’s doable.

Thanks for the feedback,
Jonathan

diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index c5ab683..c56f2c9 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -449,19 +449,23 @@ static void determine_author_info(void)
 	date = getenv("GIT_AUTHOR_DATE");
 
 	if (use_message && !renew_authorship) {
-		const char *a, *lb, *rb, *eol;
+		const char *a, *n, *lb, *rb, *eol;
 
 		a = strstr(use_message_buffer, "\nauthor ");
 		if (!a)
 			die("invalid commit: %s", use_message);
 
-		lb = strstr(a + 8, " <");
-		rb = strstr(a + 8, "> ");
-		eol = strchr(a + 8, '\n');
+		n = a + strlen("\nauthor");
+		lb = strstr(n, " <");
+		rb = strstr(lb + 2, "> ");
+		eol = strchr(rb + 2, '\n');
 		if (!lb || !rb || !eol)
 			die("invalid commit: %s", use_message);
 
-		name = xstrndup(a + 8, lb - (a + 8));
+		if (lb == n)
+			name = xstrndup("", 0);
+		else
+			name = xstrndup(n + 1, lb - (n + 1));
 		email = xstrndup(lb + 2, rb - (lb + 2));
 		date = xstrndup(rb + 2, eol - (rb + 2));
 	}
@@ -470,7 +474,7 @@ static void determine_author_info(void)
 		const char *lb = strstr(force_author, " <");
 		const char *rb = strchr(force_author, '>');
 
-		if (!lb || !rb)
+		if (!lb || !rb || rb < lb)
 			die("malformed --author parameter");
 		name = xstrndup(force_author, lb - force_author);
 		email = xstrndup(lb + 2, rb - (lb + 2));
-- 
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