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)); -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html