custom pretty format: tolerate empty e-mail address

When e-mail address is empty (e.g. "A U Thor <>"), --pretty=format
misparsed the commit header and did not pick up the date field correctly.

Noticed by Marco, fixed slightly differently with additional sanity
check and with a test.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/pretty.c b/pretty.c
index 5b1078beb6..b987ff245b 100644
--- a/pretty.c
+++ b/pretty.c
@@ -292,7 +292,18 @@ static void format_person_part(struct strbuf *sb, char part,
 	/* parse name */
 	for (end = 0; end < len && msg[end] != '<'; end++)
 		; /* do nothing */
+	/*
+	 * If it does not even have a '<' and '>', that is
+	 * quite a bogus commit author and we discard it;
+	 * this is in line with add_user_info() that is used
+	 * in the normal codepath.  When end points at the '<'
+	 * that we found, it should have matching '>' later,
+	 * which means start (beginning of email address) must
+	 * be strictly below len.
+	 */
 	start = end + 1;
+	if (start >= len - 1)
+		return;
 	while (end > 0 && isspace(msg[end - 1]))
 		end--;
 	if (part == 'n') {	/* name */
@@ -300,11 +311,8 @@ static void format_person_part(struct strbuf *sb, char part,
 		return;
 	}
 
-	if (start >= len)
-		return;
-
 	/* parse email */
-	for (end = start + 1; end < len && msg[end] != '>'; end++)
+	for (end = start; end < len && msg[end] != '>'; end++)
 		; /* do nothing */
 
 	if (end >= len)