Re: GIT_COMMITTER_* and reflog

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>]

Hi Junio/Peff

On 27/10/2019 12:20, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
>> If somebody wants to pursue a patch, I suspect the solution is probably
>> something like this (totally untested):
> 
> Looks sensible.  It is very much unsatisfying that datestamp(),
> which is used by fmt_ident() when no date string is given, seems to
> totally bypass date.c::get_time(), which means the framework to give
> fake timestamp via GIT_TEST_DATE_NOW cannot be used to write
> reproducible tests.
> 
> Given that datestamp() is only used by the push certificate and
> fast-import codepaths and nowhere else, I suspect that "fixing" it
> retroactively to honor GIT_TEST_DATE_NOW would not have any negative
> fallout, but that's not something I should be contemplating on
> during the -rc period ;-)

It would allow for more robust am/rebase --ignore-date tests as we would 
know what date to expect rather than just checking the timezone.

Best Wishes

Phillip

> 
> Thanks.
> 
>>
>> diff --git a/refs/files-backend.c b/refs/files-backend.c
>> index d60767ab73..2ebf2feeb8 100644
>> --- a/refs/files-backend.c
>> +++ b/refs/files-backend.c
>> @@ -1658,7 +1658,10 @@ static int files_log_ref_write(struct files_ref_store *refs,
>>   	if (logfd < 0)
>>   		return 0;
>>   	result = log_ref_write_fd(logfd, old_oid, new_oid,
>> -				  git_committer_info(0), msg);
>> +				  fmt_ident(getenv("GIT_COMMITTER_NAME"),
>> +					    getenv("GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL"),
>> +					    WANT_COMMITTER_IDENT, NULL, 0),
>> +				  msg);
>>   	if (result) {
>>   		struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
>>   		int save_errno = errno;
>>
>> -Peff