Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > err = fsck_ident(&buffer, &commit->object, options); > if (err) > return err; > + while (skip_prefix(buffer, "author ", &buffer)) { > + err = report(options, &commit->object, FSCK_MSG_MULTIPLE_AUTHORS, "invalid format - multiple 'author' lines"); > + if (err) > + return err; > + err = fsck_ident(&buffer, &commit->object, options); > + if (err) > + return err; > + } Hmph, naively I would have expected that you wouldn't need an extra call to fsck_ident() here, and instead would see something like this: author_count = 0; while (skip_prefix("author ")) { author_count++; ... do the existing check as-is ... } if (author_count < 1) err |= report(missing author); else if (author_count > 1) err |= report(multiple authors); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in