The current callers of the read_author_script() function read name, email and date from the author script. Allow callers to signal that they are not interested in some among these three fields by passing NULL. Note that fields that are ignored still must exist and be formatted correctly in the author script. Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@xxxxxxxxx> --- sequencer.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c index 9d5964fd81..6954b9eea9 100644 --- a/sequencer.c +++ b/sequencer.c @@ -823,9 +823,19 @@ int read_author_script(const char *path, char **name, char **email, char **date, error(_("missing 'GIT_AUTHOR_DATE'")); if (date_i < 0 || email_i < 0 || date_i < 0 || err) goto finish; - *name = kv.items[name_i].util; - *email = kv.items[email_i].util; - *date = kv.items[date_i].util; + + if (name) + *name = kv.items[name_i].util; + else + free(kv.items[name_i].util); + if (email) + *email = kv.items[email_i].util; + else + free(kv.items[email_i].util); + if (date) + *date = kv.items[date_i].util; + else + free(kv.items[date_i].util); retval = 0; finish: string_list_clear(&kv, !!retval); -- 2.21.0