git/ident.c, branch v2.7.2

Merge branch 'jk/ident-loosen-getpwuid'

2015-12-21T18:59:07Z

When getpwuid() on the system returned NULL (e.g. the user is not in the /etc/passwd file or other uid-to-name mappings), the codepath to find who the user is to record it in the reflog barfed and died. Loosen the check in this codepath, which already accepts questionable ident string (e.g. host part of the e-mail address is obviously bogus), and in general when we operate fmt_ident() function in non-strict mode. * jk/ident-loosen-getpwuid: ident: loosen getpwuid error in non-strict mode ident: keep a flag for bogus default_email ident: make xgetpwuid_self() a static local helper

ident: fix undefined variable when NO_IPV6 is set

2015-12-14T21:06:00Z

Commit 00bce77 (ident.c: add support for IPv6, 2015-11-27) moved the "gethostbyname" call out of "add_domainname" and into the helper function "canonical_name". But when moving the code, it forgot that the "buf" variable is passed as "host" in the helper. Reported-by: johan defries Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

ident: loosen getpwuid error in non-strict mode

2015-12-14T19:44:38Z

If the user has not specified an identity and we have to turn to getpwuid() to find the username or gecos field, we die immediately when getpwuid fails (e.g., because the user does not exist). This is OK for making a commit, where we have set IDENT_STRICT and would want to bail on bogus input. But for something like a reflog, where the ident is "best effort", it can be pain. For instance, even running "git clone" with a UID that is not in /etc/passwd will result in git barfing, just because we can't find an ident to put in the reflog. Instead of dying in xgetpwuid_self, we can instead return a fallback value, and set a "bogus" flag. For the username in an email, we already have a "default_email_is_bogus" flag. For the name field, we introduce (and check) a matching "default_name_is_bogus" flag. As a bonus, this means you now get the usual "tell me who you are" advice instead of just a "no such user" error. No tests, as this is dependent on configuration outside of git's control. However, I did confirm that it behaves sensibly when I delete myself from the local /etc/passwd (reflogs get written, and commits complain). Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

ident: keep a flag for bogus default_email

2015-12-10T23:39:25Z

If we have to deduce the user's email address and can't come up with something plausible for the hostname, we simply write "(none)" or ".(none)" in the hostname. Later, our strict-check is forced to use strstr to look for this magic string. This is probably not a problem in practice, but it's rather ugly. Let's keep an extra flag that tells us the email is bogus, and check that instead. We could get away with simply setting the global in add_domainname(); it only gets called to write into git_default_email. However, let's make the code a little more obvious to future readers by actually passing a pointer to our "bogus" flag down the call-chain. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

ident: make xgetpwuid_self() a static local helper

2015-12-10T23:38:59Z

This function is defined in wrapper.c, but nobody besides ident.c uses it. And nobody is likely to in the future, either, as anything that cares about the user's name should be going through the ident code. Moving it here is a cleanup of the global namespace, but it will also enable further cleanups inside ident.c. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

ident.c: add support for IPv6

2015-11-28T17:20:42Z

Add IPv6 support by implementing name resolution with the protocol agnostic getaddrinfo(3) API. The old gethostbyname(3) code is still available when git is compiled with NO_IPV6. Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto Helped-by: Jeff King Helped-by: Eric Sunshine Signed-off-by: Jeff King

Merge branch 'jk/commit-author-parsing'

2014-09-19T18:38:33Z

Code clean-up. * jk/commit-author-parsing: determine_author_info(): copy getenv output determine_author_info(): reuse parsing functions date: use strbufs in date-formatting functions record_author_date(): use find_commit_header() record_author_date(): fix memory leak on malformed commit commit: provide a function to find a header in a buffer

date: use strbufs in date-formatting functions

2014-08-27T17:32:56Z

Many of the date functions write into fixed-size buffers. This is a minor pain, as we have to take special precautions, and frequently end up copying the result into a strbuf or heap-allocated buffer anyway (for which we sometimes use strcpy!). Let's instead teach parse_date, datestamp, etc to write to a strbuf. The obvious downside is that we might need to perform a heap allocation where we otherwise would not need to. However, it turns out that the only two new allocations required are: 1. In test-date.c, where we don't care about efficiency. 2. In determine_author_info, which is not performance critical (and where the use of a strbuf will help later refactoring). Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

config --global --edit: create a template file if needed

2014-07-25T19:23:06Z

When the user has no ~/.gitconfig file, git config --global --edit used to launch an editor on an nonexistant file name. Instead, create a file with a default content before launching the editor. The template contains only commented-out entries, to save a few keystrokes for the user. If the values are guessed properly, the user will only have to uncomment the entries. Advanced users teaching newbies can create a minimalistic configuration faster for newbies. Beginners reading a tutorial advising to run "git config --global --edit" as a first step will be slightly more guided for their first contact with Git. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'jk/split-broken-ident'

2013-10-28T17:43:32Z

Make the fall-back parsing of commit objects with broken author or committer lines more robust to pick up the timestamps. * jk/split-broken-ident: split_ident: parse timestamp from end of line