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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] shortlog: replace hand-parsing of author with pretty-printer
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:13:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160118201337.GA15943@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160118200248.GC15836@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 03:02:48PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> +	format_commit_message(commit, "%an <%ae>", &author, &ctx);
> +	/* we can detect a total failure only by seeing " <>" in the output */
> +	if (author.len <= 3) {
>  		warning(_("Missing author: %s"),
>  		    oid_to_hex(&commit->object.oid));
> [...]
> +		goto out;
>  	}

One note on this. In the linux.git tree, this warning actually triggers,
because there is a commit with a bogus empty author:

  $ git log -1 --format=raw af25e94d4dc | grep ^author
  author  <> 1120285620 -0700

Whereas in the original code, you really do get a line with a blank
name.

I think what the new code does is quite reasonable, but I'm not sure if:

  1. People really want a syntactically valid empty name to be
     represented.

and

  2. Regardless of the output, if kernel folks will be annoyed by the
     warning whenever they run a full-repo shortlog.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-18 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-15 17:06 [PATCH 0/6] shortlog fixes and optimizations Jeff King
2016-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH 1/6] shortlog: match both "Author:" and "author" on stdin Jeff King
2016-01-15 23:19   ` Eric Sunshine
2016-01-18 19:27     ` Jeff King
2016-01-18 19:26   ` Jeff King
2016-01-18 19:55     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-18 20:01       ` [PATCH v2 0/6] shortlog fixes and optimizations Jeff King
2016-01-18 20:02         ` [PATCH 1/6] shortlog: match both "Author:" and "author" on stdin Jeff King
2016-01-18 20:02         ` [PATCH 2/6] shortlog: use strbufs to read from stdin Jeff King
2016-01-18 20:02         ` [PATCH 3/6] shortlog: replace hand-parsing of author with pretty-printer Jeff King
2016-01-18 20:13           ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-01-18 23:04             ` Jeff King
2016-01-19  3:47               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-18 20:02         ` [PATCH 4/6] shortlog: optimize "--summary" mode Jeff King
2016-01-18 20:02         ` [PATCH 5/6] shortlog: optimize out useless "<none>" normalization Jeff King
2016-01-18 20:02         ` [PATCH 6/6] shortlog: optimize out useless string list Jeff King
2016-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH 2/6] shortlog: use strbufs to read from stdin Jeff King
2016-01-15 17:09 ` [PATCH 3/6] shortlog: replace hand-parsing of author with pretty-printer Jeff King
2016-01-15 17:09 ` [PATCH 4/6] shortlog: optimize "--summary" mode Jeff King
2016-01-15 17:10 ` [PATCH 5/6] shortlog: optimize out useless "<none>" normalization Jeff King
2016-01-15 17:10 ` [PATCH 6/6] shortlog: optimize out useless string list Jeff King
2016-01-15 22:11 ` [PATCH 0/6] shortlog fixes and optimizations Junio C Hamano

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