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2013-01-26fetch-pack: avoid repeatedly re-scanning pack directoryLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+3
When we look up a sha1 object for reading via parse_object() => read_sha1_file() => read_object() callpath, we first check packfiles, and then loose objects. If we still haven't found it, we re-scan the list of packfiles in `objects/pack`. This final step ensures that we can co-exist with a simultaneous repack process which creates a new pack and then prunes the old object. This extra re-scan usually does not have a performance impact for two reasons: 1. If an object is missing, then typically the re-scan will find a new pack, then no more misses will occur. Or if it truly is missing, then our next step is usually to die(). 2. Re-scanning is cheap enough that we do not even notice. However, these do not always hold. The assumption in (1) is that the caller is expecting to find the object. This is usually the case, but the call to `parse_object` in `everything_local` does not follow this pattern. It is looking to see whether we have objects that the remote side is advertising, not something we expect to have. Therefore if we are fetching from a remote which has many refs pointing to objects we do not have, we may end up re-scanning the pack directory many times. Even with this extra re-scanning, the impact is often not noticeable due to (2); we just readdir() the packs directory and skip any packs that are already loaded. However, if there are a large number of packs, even enumerating the directory can be expensive, especially if we do it repeatedly. Having this many packs is a good sign the user should run `git gc`, but it would still be nice to avoid having to scan the directory at all. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-26fetch: run gc --auto after fetchingLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+5
We generally try to run "gc --auto" after any commands that might introduce a large number of new objects. An obvious place to do so is after running "fetch", which may introduce new loose objects or packs (depending on the size of the fetch). While an active developer repository will probably eventually trigger a "gc --auto" on another action (e.g., git-rebase), there are two good reasons why it is nicer to do it at fetch time: 1. Read-only repositories which track an upstream (e.g., a continuous integration server which fetches and builds, but never makes new commits) will accrue loose objects and small packs, but never coalesce them into a more efficient larger pack. 2. Fetching is often already perceived to be slow to the user, since they have to wait on the network. It's much more pleasant to include a potentially slow auto-gc as part of the already-long network fetch than in the middle of productive work with git-rebase or similar. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-08Merge branch 'os/commit-submodule-ignore' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
"git status" honored the ignore=dirty settings in .gitmodules but "git commit" didn't. * os/commit-submodule-ignore: commit: pay attention to submodule.$name.ignore in .gitmodules
2012-10-08Merge branch 'jk/receive-pack-unpack-error-to-pusher' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+31
"git receive-pack" (the counterpart to "git push") did not give progress output while processing objects it received to the puser when run over the smart-http protocol. * jk/receive-pack-unpack-error-to-pusher: receive-pack: drop "n/a" on unpacker errors receive-pack: send pack-processing stderr over sideband receive-pack: redirect unpack-objects stdout to /dev/null
2012-10-08Merge branch 'rt/maint-clone-single' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-14/+51
A repository created with "git clone --single" had its fetch refspecs set up just like a clone without "--single", leading the subsequent "git fetch" to slurp all the other branches, defeating the whole point of specifying "only this branch". * rt/maint-clone-single: clone --single: limit the fetch refspec to fetched branch
2012-10-08Merge branch 'lt/mailinfo-handle-attachment-more-sanely' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-11/+0
A patch attached as application/octet-stream (e.g. not text/*) were mishandled, not correctly honoring Content-Transfer-Encoding (e.g. base64). * lt/mailinfo-handle-attachment-more-sanely: mailinfo: don't require "text" mime type for attachments
2012-09-30mailinfo: don't require "text" mime type for attachmentsLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-11/+0
Currently "git am" does insane things if the mbox it is given contains attachments with a MIME type that aren't "text/*". In particular, it will still decode them, and pass them "one line at a time" to the mail body filter, but because it has determined that they aren't text (without actually looking at the contents, just at the mime type) the "line" will be the encoding line (eg 'base64') rather than a line of *content*. Which then will cause the text filtering to fail, because we won't correctly notice when the attachment text switches from the commit message to the actual patch. Resulting in a patch failure, even if patch may be a perfectly well-formed attachment, it's just that the message type may be (for example) "application/octet-stream" instead of "text/plain". Just remove all the bogus games with the message_type. The only difference that code creates is how the data is passed to the filter function (chunked per-pred-code line or per post-decode line), and that difference is *wrong*, since chunking things per pre-decode line can never be a sensible operation, and cannot possibly matter for binary data anyway. This code goes all the way back to March of 2007, in commit 87ab79923463 ("builtin-mailinfo.c infrastrcture changes"), and apparently Don used to pass random mbox contents to git. However, the pre-decode vs post-decode logic really shouldn't matter even for that case, and more importantly, "I fed git am crap" is not a valid reason to break *real* patch attachments. If somebody really cares, and determines that some attachment is binary data (by looking at the data, not the MIME-type), the whole attachment should be dismissed, rather than fed in random-sized chunks to "handle_filter()". Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-29Merge branch 'jc/maint-log-grep-all-match-1' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* jc/maint-log-grep-all-match-1: grep.c: make two symbols really file-scope static this time t7810-grep: test --all-match with multiple --grep and --author options t7810-grep: test interaction of multiple --grep and --author options t7810-grep: test multiple --author with --all-match t7810-grep: test multiple --grep with and without --all-match t7810-grep: bring log --grep tests in common form grep.c: mark private file-scope symbols as static log: document use of multiple commit limiting options log --grep/--author: honor --all-match honored for multiple --grep patterns grep: show --debug output only once grep: teach --debug option to dump the parse tree
2012-09-29Merge branch 'jc/maint-mailinfo-mime-attr' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+2
* jc/maint-mailinfo-mime-attr: mailinfo: do not concatenate charset= attribute values from mime headers
2012-09-24Merge branch 'jc/maint-blame-no-such-path' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-16/+73
Even during a conflicted merge, "git blame $path" always meant to blame uncommitted changes to the "working tree" version; make it more useful by showing cleanly merged parts as coming from the other branch that is being merged. This incidentally fixes an unrelated problem on a case insensitive filesystem, where "git blame MAKEFILE" run in a history that has "Makefile" but not "MAKEFILE" did not say "No such file MAKEFILE in HEAD" but pretended as if "MAKEFILE" was a newly added file. * jc/maint-blame-no-such-path: blame: allow "blame file" in the middle of a conflicted merge blame $path: avoid getting fooled by case insensitive filesystems
2012-09-24Merge branch 'dj/fetch-all-tags' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-22/+29
"git fetch --all", when passed "--no-tags", did not honor the "--no-tags" option while fetching from individual remotes (the same issue existed with "--tags", but combination "--all --tags" makes much less sense than "--all --no-tags"). * dj/fetch-all-tags: fetch --all: pass --tags/--no-tags through to each remote submodule: use argv_array instead of hand-building arrays fetch: use argv_array instead of hand-building arrays argv-array: fix bogus cast when freeing array argv-array: add pop function
2012-09-24commit: pay attention to submodule.$name.ignore in .gitmodulesLibravatar Orgad Shaneh1-0/+1
"git status" does not list a submodule with uncommitted working tree files as modified when "submodule.$name.ignore" is set to "dirty" in in-tree ".gitmodules" file. Both status and commit honor the setting in $GIT_DIR/config, but "commit" does not pick it up from .gitmodules, which is inconsistent. Teach "git commit" to pay attention to the setting in .gitmodules as well. Signed-off-by: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-21receive-pack: drop "n/a" on unpacker errorsLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
The output from git push currently looks like this: $ git push dest HEAD fatal: [some message from index-pack] error: unpack failed: index-pack abnormal exit To dest ! [remote rejected] HEAD -> master (n/a (unpacker error)) That n/a is meant to be "the per-ref status is not available" but the nested parentheses just make it look ugly. Let's turn the final line into just: ! [remote rejected] HEAD -> master (unpacker error) Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-21receive-pack: send pack-processing stderr over sidebandLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+24
Receive-pack invokes either unpack-objects or index-pack to handle the incoming pack. However, we do not redirect the stderr of the sub-processes at all, so it is never seen by the client. From the initial thread adding sideband support, which is here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/139471 it is clear that some messages are specifically kept off the sideband (with the assumption that they are of interest only to an administrator, not the client). The stderr of the subprocesses is mentioned in the thread, but it's unclear if they are included in that group, or were simply forgotten. However, there are a few good reasons to show them to the client: 1. In many cases, they are directly about the incoming packfile (e.g., fsck warnings with --strict, corruption in the packfile, etc). Without these messages, the client just gets "unpacker error" with no extra useful diagnosis. 2. No matter what the cause, we are probably better off showing the errors to the client. If the client and the server admin are not the same entity, it is probably much easier for the client to cut-and-paste the errors they see than for the admin to try to dig them out of a log and correlate them with a particular session. 3. Users of the ssh transport typically already see these stderr messages, as the remote's stderr is copied literally by ssh. This brings other transports (http, and push-over-git if you are crazy enough to enable it) more in line with ssh. As a bonus for ssh users, because the messages are now fed through the sideband and printed by the local git, they will have "remote:" prepended and be properly interleaved with any local output to stderr. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-21receive-pack: redirect unpack-objects stdout to /dev/nullLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+6
The unpack-objects command should not generally produce any output on stdout. However, if it's given extra input after the packfile, it will spew the remainder to stdout. When called by receive-pack, this means we will break protocol, since our stdout is connected to the remote send-pack. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-20Merge branch 'jc/mailinfo-RE' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+3
* jc/mailinfo-RE: mailinfo: strip "RE: " prefix
2012-09-20Merge branch 'sn/ls-remote-get-url-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* sn/ls-remote-get-url-doc: ls-remote: document the '--get-url' option
2012-09-20Merge branch 'nd/maint-remote-remove' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
* nd/maint-remote-remove: remote: prefer subcommand name 'remove' to 'rm'
2012-09-20clone --single: limit the fetch refspec to fetched branchLibravatar Ralf Thielow1-14/+51
After running "git clone --single", the resulting repository has the usual default "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" wildcard fetch refspec installed, which means that a subsequent "git fetch" will end up grabbing all the other branches. Update the fetch refspec to cover only the singly cloned ref instead to correct this. That means: If "--single" is used without "--branch" or "--mirror", the fetch refspec covers the branch on which remote's HEAD points to. If "--single" is used with "--branch", it'll cover only the branch specified in the "--branch" option. If "--single" is combined with "--mirror", then it'll cover all refs of the cloned repository. If "--single" is used with "--branch" that specifies a tag, then it'll cover only the ref for this tag. Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-18Merge branch 'jk/config-warn-on-inaccessible-paths' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
The attribute system may be asked for a path that itself or its leading directories no longer exists in the working tree, and it is fine if we cannot open .gitattribute file in such a case. Failure to open per-directory .gitattributes with error status other than ENOENT and ENOTDIR should be diagnosed. * jk/config-warn-on-inaccessible-paths: attr: failure to open a .gitattributes file is OK with ENOTDIR warn_on_inaccessible(): a helper to warn on inaccessible paths attr: warn on inaccessible attribute files gitignore: report access errors of exclude files config: warn on inaccessible files
2012-09-17mailinfo: do not concatenate charset= attribute values from mime headersLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+2
"Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8" header should not appear twice in the input, but it is always better to gracefully deal with such a case. The current code concatenates the value to the values we have seen previously, producing nonsense such as "utf8UTF-8". Instead of concatenating, forget the previous value and use the last value we see. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-17Add missing -z to git check-attr usage text for consistency with man pageLibravatar Adam Spiers1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-14Merge branch 'mz/cherry-pick-cmdline-order' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-2/+2
* mz/cherry-pick-cmdline-order: cherry-pick/revert: respect order of revisions to pick demonstrate broken 'git cherry-pick three one two' teach log --no-walk=unsorted, which avoids sorting
2012-09-14Sync with 1.7.11.7Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-2/+17
2012-09-14Merge branch 'jk/maint-quiet-is-synonym-to-s-in-log' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* jk/maint-quiet-is-synonym-to-s-in-log: log: fix --quiet synonym for -s
2012-09-14Merge branch 'jc/maint-ident-missing-human-name' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+16
* jc/maint-ident-missing-human-name: split_ident_line(): make best effort when parsing author/committer line
2012-09-14grep: show --debug output only onceLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-0/+1
When threaded grep is in effect, the patterns are duplicated and recompiled for each thread. Avoid "--debug" output during the recompilation so that the output is given once instead of "1+nthreads" times. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-14grep: teach --debug option to dump the parse treeLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
Our "grep" allows complex boolean expressions to be formed to match each individual line with operators like --and, '(', ')' and --not. Introduce the "--debug" option to show the parse tree to help people who want to debug and enhance it. Also "log" learns "--grep-debug" option to do the same. The command line parser to the log family is a lot more limited than the general "git grep" parser, but it has special handling for header matching (e.g. "--author"), and a parse tree is valuable when working on it. Note that "--all-match" is *not* any individual node in the parse tree. It is an instruction to the evaluator to check all the nodes in the top-level backbone have matched and reject a document as non-matching otherwise. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-12Merge branch 'maint-1.7.11' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano3-28/+60
2012-09-12Merge branch 'jc/apply-binary-p0' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-25/+43
"git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line correctly. This caused patches that had pathnames in no other places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that does not rename nor change mode). Textual patches, renames or mode changes have preimage and postimage pathnames in different places in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from this problem. * jc/apply-binary-p0: apply: compute patch->def_name correctly under -p0
2012-09-12Merge branch 'jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+14
"git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path when there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line. Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such a case. * jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory: specifying ranges: we did not mean to make ".." an empty set
2012-09-12Merge branch 'kk/maint-for-each-ref-multi-sort' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+3
"git for-each-ref" did not honor multiple "--sort=<key>" arguments correctly. * kk/maint-for-each-ref-multi-sort: for-each-ref: Fix sort with multiple keys t6300: test sort with multiple keys
2012-09-11blame: allow "blame file" in the middle of a conflicted mergeLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-24/+69
"git blame file" has always meant "find the origin of each line of the file in the history leading to HEAD, oh by the way, blame the lines that are modified locally to the working tree". This teaches "git blame" that during a conflicted merge, some uncommitted changes may have come from the other history that is being merged. The verify_working_tree_path() function introduced in the previous patch to notice a typo in the filename (primarily on case insensitive filesystems) has been updated to allow a filename that does not exist in HEAD (i.e. the tip of our history) as long as it exists one of the commits being merged, so that a "we deleted, the other side modified" case tracks the history of the file in the history of the other side. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-11Sync with 1.7.11.6Libravatar Junio C Hamano6-15/+12
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-11Merge branch 'jc/maint-config-exit-status' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+6
* jc/maint-config-exit-status: config: "git config baa" should exit with status 1
2012-09-11Merge branch 'jc/capabilities' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano3-5/+36
* jc/capabilities: fetch-pack: mention server version with verbose output parse_feature_request: make it easier to see feature values fetch-pack: do not ask for unadvertised capabilities do not send client agent unless server does first send-pack: fix capability-sending logic include agent identifier in capability string
2012-09-11Merge branch 'tr/void-diff-setup-done' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano4-12/+6
* tr/void-diff-setup-done: diff_setup_done(): return void
2012-09-11Merge branch 'pg/maint-apply-remove-unused-variable' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+0
* pg/maint-apply-remove-unused-variable: apply: delete unused deflate_origlen from patch struct
2012-09-10blame $path: avoid getting fooled by case insensitive filesystemsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+14
"git blame MAKEFILE" run in a history that has "Makefile" but not MAKEFILE can get confused on a case insensitive filesystem, because the check we run to see if there is a corresponding file in the working tree with lstat("MAKEFILE") succeeds. In addition to that check, we have to make sure that the given path also exists in the commit we start digging history from (i.e. "HEAD"). Note that this reveals the breakage in a test added in cd8ae20 (git-blame shouldn't crash if run in an unmerged tree, 2007-10-18), which expects the entire merge-in-progress path to be blamed to the working tree when it did not exist in our tree. As it is clear in the log message of that commit, the old breakage was that it was causing an internal error and the fix was about avoiding it. Just check that the command does not die an uncontrolled death. For this particular case, the blame should fail, as the history for the file in that contents has not been committed yet at the point in the test. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-10Merge branch 'bc/prune-info' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
"git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation). * bc/prune-info: prune.c: only print informational message in show_only or verbose mode
2012-09-10Merge branch 'maint-1.7.11' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano4-8/+14
* maint-1.7.11: Almost 1.7.11.6 gitweb: URL-decode $my_url/$my_uri when stripping PATH_INFO rebase -i: use full onto sha1 in reflog sh-setup: protect from exported IFS receive-pack: do not leak output from auto-gc to standard output t/t5400: demonstrate breakage caused by informational message from prune setup: clarify error messages for file/revisions ambiguity send-email: improve RFC2047 quote parsing fsck: detect null sha1 in tree entries do not write null sha1s to on-disk index diff: do not use null sha1 as a sentinel value
2012-09-10Merge branch 'bc/receive-pack-stdout-protection' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to the standard output, breaking the communication protocol. * bc/receive-pack-stdout-protection: receive-pack: do not leak output from auto-gc to standard output t/t5400: demonstrate breakage caused by informational message from prune
2012-09-10Merge branch 'jk/maint-null-in-trees' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-7/+12
"git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have name 0{40} recorded in a tree. * jk/maint-null-in-trees: fsck: detect null sha1 in tree entries do not write null sha1s to on-disk index diff: do not use null sha1 as a sentinel value
2012-09-09mailinfo: strip "RE: " prefixLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+3
We already strip the more common Re: and re:, and we do not often see RE: from saner MUA, but this prefix does exist and gets used from time to time. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-07ls-remote: document the '--get-url' optionLibravatar Stefan Naewe1-1/+1
While looking for a way to expand the URL of a remote that uses a 'url.<name>.insteadOf' config option I stumbled over the undocumented '--get-url' option of 'git ls-remote'. This adds some minimum documentation for that option. And while at it, also add that option to the '-h' output. Signed-off-by: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-07fetch --all: pass --tags/--no-tags through to each remoteLibravatar Dan Johnson1-0/+4
When fetch is invoked with --all, we need to pass the tag-following preference to each individual fetch; without this, we will always auto-follow tags, preventing us from fetching the remote tags into a remote-specific namespace, for example. Reported-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org> Signed-off-by: Dan Johnson <ComputerDruid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-06remote: prefer subcommand name 'remove' to 'rm'Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-3/+3
All remote subcommands are spelled out words except 'rm'. 'rm', being a popular UNIX command name, may mislead users that there are also 'ls' or 'mv'. Use 'remove' to fit with the rest of subcommands. 'rm' is still supported and used in the test suite. It's just not widely advertised. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-02submodule: use argv_array instead of hand-building arraysLibravatar Jens Lehmann1-1/+1
fetch_populated_submodules() allocates the full argv array it uses to recurse into the submodules from the number of given options plus the six argv values it is going to add. It then initializes it with those values which won't change during the iteration and copies the given options into it. Inside the loop the two argv values different for each submodule get replaced with those currently valid. However, this technique is brittle and error-prone (as the comment to explain the magic number 6 indicates), so let's replace it with an argv_array. Instead of replacing the argv values, push them to the argv_array just before the run_command() call (including the option separating them) and pop them from the argv_array right after that. Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-02fetch: use argv_array instead of hand-building arraysLibravatar Jeff King1-22/+25
Fetch invokes itself recursively when recursing into submodules or handling "fetch --multiple". In both cases, it builds the child's command line by pushing options onto a statically-sized array. In both cases, the array is currently just big enough to handle the largest possible case. However, this technique is brittle and error-prone, so let's replace it with a dynamic argv_array. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-31split_ident_line(): make best effort when parsing author/committer lineLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+16
Commits made by ancient version of Git allowed committer without human readable name, like this (00213b17c in the kernel history): tree 6947dba41f8b0e7fe7bccd41a4840d6de6a27079 parent 352dd1df32e672be4cff71132eb9c06a257872fe author Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> 1135223044 +0100 committer <sam@mars.ravnborg.org> 1136151043 +0100 kconfig: Remove support for lxdialog --checklist ... Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> When fed such a commit, --format='%ci' fails to parse it, and gives back an empty string. Update the split_ident_line() to be a bit more lenient when parsing, but make sure the caller that wants to pick up sane value from its return value does its own validation. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>