Duy Nguyen <[email protected]> writes:

> Well.. reflog needs it. So either you disable reflog at clone time or
> define name/email via config file. I don't see anything wrong with
> this behavior.

Hmm, I am not quite sure about that.

In the codepath that computes ident_default_email(), which is one
half of what the "reflog" code you cite wants to do, copy_email()
calls copy_email() which in turn calls add_domainname().  If your
getpwuid() gave you some username, but your gethostname() gave you a
NULL, we do not barf but add "(none)" as and then issue a warning.

Perhaps we can do the same by returning a structure with members set
to a set of fake values.  Because we already have checks in places
that really matter to the recorded history (read: not reflog) in the
form of *_ident_sufficiently_given() functions, potential damage due
to having phoney names returned from here would not be too bad.

Totally untested...

 ident.c   | 13 ++++++++++---
 wrapper.c |  4 ----
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c
index 4e7f99d..2ccae2c 100644
--- a/ident.c
+++ b/ident.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ static void copy_gecos(const struct passwd *w, struct strbuf 
*name)
         * with commas.  Also & stands for capitalized form of the login name.
         */
 
-       for (src = get_gecos(w); *src && *src != ','; src++) {
+       for (src = w ? get_gecos(w) : "&"; *src && *src != ','; src++) {
                int ch = *src;
                if (ch != '&')
                        strbuf_addch(name, ch);
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ static void copy_email(const struct passwd *pw, struct 
strbuf *email)
         * Make up a fake email address
         * (name + '@' + hostname [+ '.' + domainname])
         */
-       strbuf_addstr(email, pw->pw_name);
+       strbuf_addstr(email, pw ? pw->pw_name : "unknown");
        strbuf_addch(email, '@');
 
        if (!add_mailname_host(email))
@@ -332,8 +332,15 @@ const char *fmt_ident(const char *name, const char *email,
                                fputs(env_hint, stderr);
                        die("empty ident name (for <%s>) not allowed", email);
                }
+               errno = 0;
                pw = xgetpwuid_self();
-               name = pw->pw_name;
+               if (!pw) {
+                       warning(_("unable to look up current user: %s"),
+                               errno ? strerror(errno) : _("no such user"));
+                       name = "unknown";
+               } else {
+                       name = pw->pw_name;
+               }
        }
 
        if (strict && email == git_default_email.buf &&
diff --git a/wrapper.c b/wrapper.c
index 6fcaa4d..16ab45f 100644
--- a/wrapper.c
+++ b/wrapper.c
@@ -605,11 +605,7 @@ struct passwd *xgetpwuid_self(void)
 {
        struct passwd *pw;
 
-       errno = 0;
        pw = getpwuid(getuid());
-       if (!pw)
-               die(_("unable to look up current user in the passwd file: %s"),
-                   errno ? strerror(errno) : _("no such user"));
        return pw;
 }
 
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