Git.pm: Don't require repository instance for ident

git var doesn't require to be called in a repository anymore,
so don't require it either.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
index 67b3749f0e80e2ea74b71acba43fa69b92a9cc40..2e7f896baec00d644903af5d967b6c781ee3503a 100644 (file)
--- a/perl/Git.pm
+++ b/perl/Git.pm
@@ -632,15 +632,15 @@ The synopsis is like:
        "$name <$email>" eq ident_person($name);
        $time_tz =~ /^\d+ [+-]\d{4}$/;
 
-Both methods must be called on a repository instance.
-
 =cut
 
 sub ident {
-       my ($self, $type) = @_;
+       my ($self, $type) = _maybe_self(@_);
        my $identstr;
        if (lc $type eq lc 'committer' or lc $type eq lc 'author') {
-               $identstr = $self->command_oneline('var', 'GIT_'.uc($type).'_IDENT');
+               my @cmd = ('var', 'GIT_'.uc($type).'_IDENT');
+               unshift @cmd, $self if $self;
+               $identstr = command_oneline(@cmd);
        } else {
                $identstr = $type;
        }
@@ -652,8 +652,8 @@ sub ident {
 }
 
 sub ident_person {
-       my ($self, @ident) = @_;
-       $#ident == 0 and @ident = $self->ident($ident[0]);
+       my ($self, @ident) = _maybe_self(@_);
+       $#ident == 0 and @ident = $self ? $self->ident($ident[0]) : ident($ident[0]);
        return "$ident[0] <$ident[1]>";
 }