check-mailmap: accept "user@host" contacts

git check-mailmap splits each provided contact using split_ident_line.
This function requires that the contact either be of the form "Name
<user@host>" or of the form "<user@host>". In particular, if the mail
portion of the contact is not surrounded by angle brackets,
split_ident_line will reject it.

This results in git check-mailmap rejecting attempts to translate simple
email addresses:

  $ git check-mailmap user@host
  fatal: unable to parse contact: user@host

This limits the usability of check-mailmap as it requires placing angle
brackets around plain email addresses.

In particular, attempting to use git check-mailmap to support mapping
addresses in git send-email is not straight forward. The sanitization
and validation functions in git send-email strip angle brackets from
plain email addresses. It is not trivial to add brackets prior to
invoking git check-mailmap.

Instead, modify check_mailmap() to allow such strings as contacts. In
particular, treat any line which cannot be split by split_ident_line as
a simple email address.

No attempt is made to actually parse the address line, or validate that
it is actually an email address. Implementing such validation is not
trivial. Besides, we weren't validating the address between angle
brackets before anyways.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/check-mailmap.c b/builtin/check-mailmap.c
index b8a05b8e07..6b7fb53494 100644
--- a/builtin/check-mailmap.c
+++ b/builtin/check-mailmap.c
@@ -25,13 +25,17 @@ static void check_mailmap(struct string_list *mailmap, const char *contact)
 	size_t namelen, maillen;
 	struct ident_split ident;
 
-	if (split_ident_line(&ident, contact, strlen(contact)))
-		die(_("unable to parse contact: %s"), contact);
-
-	name = ident.name_begin;
-	namelen = ident.name_end - ident.name_begin;
-	mail = ident.mail_begin;
-	maillen = ident.mail_end - ident.mail_begin;
+	if (!split_ident_line(&ident, contact, strlen(contact))) {
+		name = ident.name_begin;
+		namelen = ident.name_end - ident.name_begin;
+		mail = ident.mail_begin;
+		maillen = ident.mail_end - ident.mail_begin;
+	} else {
+		name = NULL;
+		namelen = 0;
+		mail = contact;
+		maillen = strlen(contact);
+	}
 
 	map_user(mailmap, &mail, &maillen, &name, &namelen);