From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: john at keeping.me.uk (John Keeping) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 17:04:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Add support for git's mailmap. In-Reply-To: References: <0587571d-09ae-25f4-ecb9-d189030d73c9@bnl.gov> <20160826231342.moste5aa44ekahcl@john.keeping.me.uk> Message-ID: <20160829160418.m33ncedwrtqwkizr@john.keeping.me.uk> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:18:16AM -0400, Jason A. Smith wrote: > On 08/26/2016 07:13 PM, John Keeping wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 05:30:32PM -0400, Jason A. Smith wrote: > >> > >> Sorry for the extra email noise, but while fixing these I found two more > >> cgit_open_filter() function calls that should probably be changed to > >> cgit_open_email_filter() in the first patch: > >> > >> ui-refs.c:146 > >> ui-tag.c:85 > > > > Those both use tagger_email, so that makes sense, I completely forgot > > about that one and only converted author_email and committer_email. > > > > The reference in ui-tag.c also needs angle brackets inserted in the > > output in the !noplainemail case. Feel free to squash that into the > > first patch, and take ownership if you want. > > I fixed both of these and squashed them into your commits since they > were very minor changes. > > > I also noticed that we don't check the return value of read_mailmap(), > > I'm not entirely sure what we should do if it fails, but it does look > > like "missing mailmap" is not a failure case, so we probably should be > > doing something if it returns an error. > > I am going to update the 3rd mailmap commit now. What would you suggest > doing if there is an error reading the mailmap file? Should it call > cgit_print_error_page() or is that too much and instead just log an > error message to stderr so it goes into the web server's error logs? > > I looked at the git sources and didn't see any examples of any other > code checking for errors returned by read_mailmap() Printing to stderr seems reasonable. As a user there's nothing more annoying than observing the something isn't working (for example, the mailmap isn't being applied) and having no way of telling where the error is, so printing a warning if read_mailmap() fails seems like the right thing to do.