commit_tree(): add a new author parameter

In case it's NULL, it is still determined automatically, but now you
have the ability to specify one yourself.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/builtin-commit-tree.c b/builtin-commit-tree.c
index f2684bb75e2319f2797bfe626e15bc27bd76f21a..0453425c471f1d6793bc7f5f59d17e9d285ddfc6 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-commit-tree.c
+++ b/builtin-commit-tree.c
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ static const char commit_utf8_warn[] =
 "variable i18n.commitencoding to the encoding your project uses.\n";
 
 int commit_tree(const char *msg, unsigned char *tree,
-               struct commit_list *parents, unsigned char *ret)
+               struct commit_list *parents, unsigned char *ret,
+               const char *author)
 {
        int result;
        int encoding_is_utf8;
@@ -74,7 +75,9 @@ int commit_tree(const char *msg, unsigned char *tree,
        }
 
        /* Person/date information */
-       strbuf_addf(&buffer, "author %s\n", git_author_info(IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME));
+       if (!author)
+               author = git_author_info(IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME);
+       strbuf_addf(&buffer, "author %s\n", author);
        strbuf_addf(&buffer, "committer %s\n", git_committer_info(IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME));
        if (!encoding_is_utf8)
                strbuf_addf(&buffer, "encoding %s\n", git_commit_encoding);
@@ -123,7 +126,7 @@ int cmd_commit_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
        if (strbuf_read(&buffer, 0, 0) < 0)
                die("git commit-tree: read returned %s", strerror(errno));
 
-       if (!commit_tree(buffer.buf, tree_sha1, parents, commit_sha1)) {
+       if (!commit_tree(buffer.buf, tree_sha1, parents, commit_sha1, NULL)) {
                printf("%s\n", sha1_to_hex(commit_sha1));
                return 0;
        }

diff --git a/builtin-merge.c b/builtin-merge.c
index 9ad9791068c9330f28413ac67315246989c8d96d..4a8ec604d390d0b600ee7a6b3d5b74975dbf87d3 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-merge.c
+++ b/builtin-merge.c
@@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ static int merge_trivial(void)
        parent->next = xmalloc(sizeof(struct commit_list *));
        parent->next->item = remoteheads->item;
        parent->next->next = NULL;
-       commit_tree(merge_msg.buf, result_tree, parent, result_commit);
+       commit_tree(merge_msg.buf, result_tree, parent, result_commit, NULL);
        finish(result_commit, "In-index merge");
        drop_save();
        return 0;
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ static int finish_automerge(struct commit_list *common,
        }
        free_commit_list(remoteheads);
        strbuf_addch(&merge_msg, '\n');
-       commit_tree(merge_msg.buf, result_tree, parents, result_commit);
+       commit_tree(merge_msg.buf, result_tree, parents, result_commit, NULL);
        strbuf_addf(&buf, "Merge made by %s.", wt_strategy);
        finish(result_commit, buf.buf);
        strbuf_release(&buf);

diff --git a/builtin.h b/builtin.h
index e67cb2090e8c111be4b137939953f3e006f31dfd..8893b3ca59e650f88384ddc19389cfe96088e654 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin.h
+++ b/builtin.h
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ extern int read_line_with_nul(char *buf, int size, FILE *file);
 extern int fmt_merge_msg(int merge_summary, struct strbuf *in,
        struct strbuf *out);
 extern int commit_tree(const char *msg, unsigned char *tree,
-               struct commit_list *parents, unsigned char *ret);
+               struct commit_list *parents, unsigned char *ret,
+               const char *author);
 extern int check_pager_config(const char *cmd);
 
 extern int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);