sequencer: allow callers of read_author_script() to ignore fields

The current callers of the read_author_script() function read name,
email and date from the author script.  Allow callers to signal that
they are not interested in some among these three fields by passing
NULL.

Note that fields that are ignored still must exist and be formatted
correctly in the author script.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index 2adcf5a639..b759c940f8 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c
@@ -824,9 +824,19 @@ int read_author_script(const char *path, char **name, char **email, char **date,
 		error(_("missing 'GIT_AUTHOR_DATE'"));
 	if (date_i < 0 || email_i < 0 || date_i < 0 || err)
 		goto finish;
-	*name = kv.items[name_i].util;
-	*email = kv.items[email_i].util;
-	*date = kv.items[date_i].util;
+
+	if (name)
+		*name = kv.items[name_i].util;
+	else
+		free(kv.items[name_i].util);
+	if (email)
+		*email = kv.items[email_i].util;
+	else
+		free(kv.items[email_i].util);
+	if (date)
+		*date = kv.items[date_i].util;
+	else
+		free(kv.items[date_i].util);
 	retval = 0;
 finish:
 	string_list_clear(&kv, !!retval);