On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 7:59 AM Tobias Klauser <tklau...@distanz.ch> wrote:
> In some cases, the svn author names might contain leading or trailing
> whitespaces, leading to messages such as:
>
> Author: user1
> not defined in authors.txt
>
> (the trailing newline leads to the line break). The user "user1" is
> defined in authors.txt though, e.g.
>
> user1 = User <us...@example.com>
>
> Fix this by trimming the author name retreived from svn before using it
> in check_author.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklau...@distanz.ch>
> ---
> diff --git a/perl/Git/SVN.pm b/perl/Git/SVN.pm
> @@ -1491,6 +1491,7 @@ sub call_authors_prog {
> sub check_author {
> my ($author) = @_;
> + $author =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
> if (!defined $author || length $author == 0) {
> $author = '(no author)';
> }
This fix seems incomplete. What happens if $author is undefined?
(There is a check for $author defined'ness just below the new code you
add.)
