An ident name consisting of only "crud" characters (like
whitespace or punctuation) is effectively the same as an
empty one, because our strbuf_addstr_without_crud() will
remove those characters.
We reject an empty name when formatting a strict ident, but
don't notice an all-crud one because our check happens
before the crud-removal step.
We could skip past the crud before checking for an empty
name, but let's make it a separate code path, for two
reasons. One is that we can give a more specific error
message. And two is that unlike a blank name, we probably
don't want to kick in the fallback-to-username behavior.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net>
---
ident.c | 11 +++++++++++
t/t7518-ident-corner-cases.sh | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c
index ea6034581..ead09ff7f 100644
--- a/ident.c
+++ b/ident.c
@@ -203,6 +203,15 @@ static int crud(unsigned char c)
c == '\'';
}
+static int has_non_crud(const char *str)
+{
+ for (; *str; str++) {
+ if (!crud(*str))
+ return 1;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
/*
* Copy over a string to the destination, but avoid special
* characters ('\n', '<' and '>') and remove crud at the end
@@ -389,6 +398,8 @@ const char *fmt_ident(const char *name, const char *email,
pw = xgetpwuid_self(NULL);
name = pw->pw_name;
}
+ if (strict && !has_non_crud(name))
+ die(_("name consists only of disallowed characters:
%s"), name);
}
strbuf_reset(&ident);
diff --git a/t/t7518-ident-corner-cases.sh b/t/t7518-ident-corner-cases.sh
index 6c057afc1..3d2560c3c 100755
--- a/t/t7518-ident-corner-cases.sh
+++ b/t/t7518-ident-corner-cases.sh
@@ -17,4 +17,9 @@ test_expect_success 'empty name and missing email' '
)
'
+test_expect_success 'commit rejects all-crud name' '
+ test_must_fail env GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=" .;<>" \
+ git commit --allow-empty -m foo
+'
+
test_done
--
2.12.0.rc2.597.g959f68882
