The first thing we teach in the tutorial is to set the default
identity in $HOME/.gitconfig using "git config --global". The
suggestion in the error message should match the order, while
hinting that per repository identity can later be configured
differently.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The environment variable $EMAIL gives a better default of user's
preferred e-mail address than the hardcoded "username@hostname",
as it is understood by many existing programs.
We still honor GIT_*_EMAIL environment variables and user.email
configuration variable give them higher precedence, so that the
user can override $EMAIL or "username@hostname", as they are
likely to be more specific to the context of working on a
particular project.
Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
$EMAIL is a system-wide setup that is used for many many many
applications. If the git user chose a specific user.email setup,
then _this_ should be honoured rather than $EMAIL.
[jc: cherry-picked ec563e8 from 'master']
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
$EMAIL is a system-wide setup that is used for many many many
applications. If the git user chose a specific user.email setup,
then _this_ should be honoured rather than $EMAIL.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some other programs get the user's email address from $EMAIL, so fall back to
that if we don't have a Git-specific email address.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Back when only handful commands that created commit and tag were
the only users of committer identity information, it made sense
to explicitly call setup_ident() to pre-fill the default value
from the gecos information. But it is much simpler for programs
to make the call automatic when get_ident() is called these days,
since many more programs want to use the information when updating
the reflog.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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 <junkio@cox.net>
This is a mechanical clean-up of the way *.c files include
system header files.
(1) sources under compat/, platform sha-1 implementations, and
xdelta code are exempt from the following rules;
(2) the first #include must be "git-compat-util.h" or one of
our own header file that includes it first (e.g. config.h,
builtin.h, pkt-line.h);
(3) system headers that are included in "git-compat-util.h"
need not be included in individual C source files.
(4) "git-compat-util.h" does not have to include subsystem
specific header files (e.g. expat.h).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If GIT_COMMITTER_NAME is not available in receive-pack but reflogs
are enabled we would normally die out with an error message asking
the user to correct their environment settings.
Now that reflogs are enabled by default in (what we guessed to be)
non-bare Git repositories this may cause problems for some users
who don't have their full name in the gecos field and who don't
have access to the remote system to correct the problem.
So rather than die()'ing out in receive-pack when we try to log a
ref change and have no committer name we default to the username,
as obtained from the host's password database.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Also remove asterisks for readability, and suggest use of
git-config for easy cut & pasting.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This cleans up the use of safe_strncpy() even more. Since it has the
same semantics as strlcpy() use this name instead. Also move the
definition from inside path.c to its own file compat/strlcpy.c, and use
it conditionally at compile time, since some platforms already has
strlcpy(). It's included in the same way as compat/setenv.c.
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Previous one warned people upfront to encourage fixing their
environment early, but some people just use repositories and git
tools read-only without making any changes, and in such a case
there is not much point insisting on them having a usable ident.
This round attempts to move the error until either "git-var"
asks for the ident explicitly or "commit-tree" wants to use it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It appears that some people who did not care about having bogus
names in their own commit messages are bitten by the recent
change to require a sane environment [*1*].
While it was a good idea to prevent people from using bogus
names to create commits and doing sign-offs, the error message
is not very informative. This patch attempts to warn things
upfront and hint people how to fix their environments.
[Footnote]
*1* The thread is this one.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113868084800004
Especially this message.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?m=113932830015032
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Previous one warned people upfront to encourage fixing their
environment early, but some people just use repositories and git
tools read-only without making any changes, and in such a case
there is not much point insisting on them having a usable ident.
This round attempts to move the error until either "git-var"
asks for the ident explicitly or "commit-tree" wants to use it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It appears that some people who did not care about having bogus
names in their own commit messages are bitten by the recent
change to require a sane environment [*1*].
While it was a good idea to prevent people from using bogus
names to create commits and doing sign-offs, the error message
is not very informative. This patch attempts to warn things
upfront and hint people how to fix their environments.
[Footnote]
*1* The thread is this one.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113868084800004
Especially this message.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?m=113932830015032
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Instead of silently allowing to create a bogus commit that lacks
information by mistake, complain loudly and die.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
var.c::git_var read function did not have to return writable
strings; make it and the functions it points at return const char *
instead.
ident.c::get_ident() did not need to be global, so make it
static.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Currently, the code would use getdomainname() call, which however returns
something usually unset and not necessarily related at all to the DNS
domain name (it seems to be mostly some scary NIS/YP thing).
This patch changes the code to actually use the DNS domain name, which is
also what tends to be used in emails, and we aim at emails with our ident
code.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Do our own ctype.h, just to get the sane semantics: we want
locale-independence, _and_ we want the right signed behaviour. Plus we
only use a very small subset of ctype.h anyway (isspace, isalpha,
isdigit and isalnum).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This starts using the "user.name" and "user.email" config variables if
they exist as the default name and email when committing. This means
that you don't have to use the GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL environment variable
to override your email - you can just edit the config file instead.
The patch looks bigger than it is because it makes the default name and
email information non-static and renames it appropriately. And it moves
the common git environment variables into a new library file, so that
you can link against libgit.a and get the git environment without having
to link in zlib and libcrypt.
In short, most of it is renaming and moving, the real change core is
just a few new lines in "git_default_config()" that copies the user
config values to the new base.
It also changes "git-var -l" to list the config variables.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This updates the default human readable name we generate from GECOS
field. We assume the "full-name, followed by additional information
separated by commas" format, with an & expanding to the capitalized
login name.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Jason Riedy suggests that we should be able to use getdomainname
if we properly specify which libraries to link.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We have deprecated the old environment variable names for quite a
while and now it's time to remove them. Gone are:
SHA1_FILE_DIRECTORIES AUTHOR_DATE AUTHOR_EMAIL AUTHOR_NAME
COMMIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL COMMIT_AUTHOR_NAME SHA1_FILE_DIRECTORY
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* getdomainname unavailable there.
* needs -lsocket for linkage.
* needs __EXTENSIONS__ at the beginning of convert-objects.c
[JC: I've done this slightly differently from what Patrick originally
sent to the list and dropped the bit that deals with installations
that has curl header and library at non-default location. I am
resisting the slipperly slope called autoconf.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If your user name is too long it is your sysadmin who
hates you not your parents!
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
[ Fixed grammar ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Moving these functions allows all of the logic for figuring out what
these values are to be shared between programs.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Steffen Prohaska