Re: [PATCH] Allow non-developer to clone, checkout and fetch easier.

On 1/26/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> 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.

 enum {
    CMITR_INFO_PW_NAME = -1,
    CMITR_INFO_EMPTY = 0,
    CMITR_INFO_DIE = 1,
 };

-       const char *committer = git_committer_info(CMITR_INFO_DIE);
+       const char *committer = git_committer_info(CMITR_INFO_PW_NAME);

The code becoming increasingly harder to read, doesn't it...
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