commit --amend: cope with missing display name

Though I have not seen this in the wild, it has been said that there
are likely to be git repositories converted from other version control
systems with an invalid ident line like this one:

  author <user@example.com> 18746342 +0000

Because there is no space between the (empty) user name and the email
address, commit --amend chokes.  When searching for a
space-left-bracket sequence on the ident line, it finds it in the
committer line, ending up utterly confused.

Better for commit --amend to treat this like a valid ident line with
empty username and complain.

The tests remove the questionable commit objects after use so there is
no chance for them to confuse later tests.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2 files changed, 59 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index c5ab683d5b..58e477409c 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -455,15 +455,21 @@ static void determine_author_info(void)
 		if (!a)
 			die("invalid commit: %s", use_message);
 
-		lb = strstr(a + 8, " <");
-		rb = strstr(a + 8, "> ");
-		eol = strchr(a + 8, '\n');
-		if (!lb || !rb || !eol)
+		lb = strchrnul(a + strlen("\nauthor "), '<');
+		rb = strchrnul(lb, '>');
+		eol = strchrnul(rb, '\n');
+		if (!*lb || !*rb || !*eol)
 			die("invalid commit: %s", use_message);
 
-		name = xstrndup(a + 8, lb - (a + 8));
-		email = xstrndup(lb + 2, rb - (lb + 2));
-		date = xstrndup(rb + 2, eol - (rb + 2));
+		if (lb == a + strlen("\nauthor "))
+			/* \nauthor <foo@example.com> */
+			name = xcalloc(1, 1);
+		else
+			name = xmemdupz(a + strlen("\nauthor "),
+					(lb - strlen(" ") -
+					 (a + strlen("\nauthor "))));
+		email = xmemdupz(lb + strlen("<"), rb - (lb + strlen("<")));
+		date = xmemdupz(rb + strlen("> "), eol - (rb + strlen("> ")));
 	}
 
 	if (force_author) {
diff --git a/t/t7509-commit.sh b/t/t7509-commit.sh
index d52c060b06..3ea33db6c7 100755
--- a/t/t7509-commit.sh
+++ b/t/t7509-commit.sh
@@ -83,6 +83,52 @@ test_expect_success '--amend option copies authorship' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+sha1_file() {
+	echo "$*" | sed "s#..#.git/objects/&/#"
+}
+remove_object() {
+	rm -f $(sha1_file "$*")
+}
+no_reflog() {
+	cp .git/config .git/config.saved &&
+	echo "[core] logallrefupdates = false" >>.git/config &&
+	test_when_finished "mv -f .git/config.saved .git/config" &&
+
+	if test -e .git/logs
+	then
+		mv .git/logs . &&
+		test_when_finished "mv logs .git/"
+	fi
+}
+
+test_expect_success '--amend option with empty author' '
+	git cat-file commit Initial >tmp &&
+	sed "s/author [^<]* </author  </" tmp >empty-author &&
+	no_reflog &&
+	sha=$(git hash-object -t commit -w empty-author) &&
+	test_when_finished "remove_object $sha" &&
+	git checkout $sha &&
+	test_when_finished "git checkout Initial" &&
+	echo "Empty author test" >>foo &&
+	test_tick &&
+	! git commit -a -m "empty author" --amend 2>err &&
+	grep "empty ident" err
+'
+
+test_expect_success '--amend option with missing author' '
+	git cat-file commit Initial >tmp &&
+	sed "s/author [^<]* </author </" tmp >malformed &&
+	no_reflog &&
+	sha=$(git hash-object -t commit -w malformed) &&
+	test_when_finished "remove_object $sha" &&
+	git checkout $sha &&
+	test_when_finished "git checkout Initial" &&
+	echo "Missing author test" >>foo &&
+	test_tick &&
+	! git commit -a -m "malformed author" --amend 2>err &&
+	grep "empty ident" err
+'
+
 test_expect_success '--reset-author makes the commit ours even with --amend option' '
 	git checkout Initial &&
 	echo "Test 6" >>foo &&