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Giulio Caccin
Giulio Caccin

Reputation: 3052

How to check if a git commit author is valid

In a repository where I cant set both user.name and user.email configurations I need to script a commit with:

commit -a --message "message" --author="author"

Message and author are parametrized.

When I commit with a wrong author (not present on rev-list and bad formatted for git) I get:

fatal: --author 'bad-formatted-author' is not 'Name ' and matches no existing author

Is there any way to check against git if the author is valid before the commit?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3158

Answers (2)

Raphael Schweikert
Raphael Schweikert

Reputation: 18556

Use git commit -a --message "message" --author="author" --dry-run.

The added --dry-run flag will make git commit not actually commit anything but still exit non-zero if the --author option string given is invalid.

Note, however, that there may be other reasons the exit status is non-zero, such as the commit being empty (i.e. not having any changes).

Upvotes: 5

torek
torek

Reputation: 488053

This really is right in the documentation:

--author=author

      Override the commit author. Specify an explicit author using the standard A U Thor <[email protected]> format. Otherwise author is assumed to be a pattern and is used to search for an existing commit by that author (i.e. rev-list --all -i --author=author); the commit author is then copied from the first such commit found.

You even copied these in your question:

not present on rev-list and bad formatted for git

which means this is your answer: check the format to see if it matches the Name <email> style, and if not, run git rev-list with the parameters shown to see if there is at least one matching commit.

In general, though, it's probably simpler to just attempt the commit and catch the failure.

Upvotes: 2

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