From cb280e107523e5263f390db715234700355a63b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:05:01 -0800 Subject: Allow non-developer to clone, checkout and fetch more easily. The code that uses committer_info() in reflog can barf and die whenever it is asked to update a ref. And I do not think calling ignore_missing_committer_name() upfront like recent receive-pack did in the aplication is a reasonable workaround. What the patch does. - git_committer_info() takes one parameter. It used to be "if this is true, then die() if the name is not available due to bad GECOS, otherwise issue a warning once but leave the name empty". The reason was because we wanted to prevent bad commits from being made by git-commit-tree (and its callers). The value 0 is only used by "git var -l". Now it takes -1, 0 or 1. When set to -1, it does not complain but uses the pw->pw_name when name is not available. Existing 0 and 1 values mean the same thing as they used to mean before. 0 means issue warnings and leave it empty, 1 means barf and die. - ignore_missing_committer_name() and its existing caller (receive-pack, to set the reflog) have been removed. - git-format-patch, to come up with the phoney message ID when asked to thread, now passes -1 to git_committer_info(). This codepath uses only the e-mail part, ignoring the name. It used to barf and die. The other call in the same program when asked to add signed-off-by line based on committer identity still passes 1 to make sure it barfs instead of adding a bogus s-o-b line. - log_ref_write in refs.c, to come up with the name to record who initiated the ref update in the reflog, passes -1. It used to barf and die. The last change means that git-update-ref, git-branch, and commit walker backends can now be used in a repository with reflog by somebody who does not have the user identity required to make a commit. They all used to barf and die. I've run tests and all of them seem to pass, and also tried "git clone" as a user whose GECOS is empty -- git clone works again now (it was broken when reflog was enabled by default). But this definitely needs extra sets of eyeballs. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- cache.h | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'cache.h') diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h index 473197ded8..9486132ac5 100644 --- a/cache.h +++ b/cache.h @@ -320,7 +320,6 @@ void datestamp(char *buf, int bufsize); unsigned long approxidate(const char *); extern int setup_ident(void); -extern void ignore_missing_committer_name(void); extern const char *git_author_info(int); extern const char *git_committer_info(int); -- cgit v1.2.3