rerere: error out on autoupdate failure

diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c
index b29f81f83a68258b354c59df9bde40c254060ed9..1d9b6e770d02d12f77b417e05aca5134eccf1c40 100644 (file)
--- a/ident.c
+++ b/ident.c
@@ -233,7 +233,21 @@ int split_ident_line(struct ident_split *split, const char *line, int len)
        if (!split->mail_end)
                return status;
 
-       for (cp = split->mail_end + 1; cp < line + len && isspace(*cp); cp++)
+       /*
+        * Look from the end-of-line to find the trailing ">" of the mail
+        * address, even though we should already know it as split->mail_end.
+        * This can help in cases of broken idents with an extra ">" somewhere
+        * in the email address.  Note that we are assuming the timestamp will
+        * never have a ">" in it.
+        *
+        * Note that we will always find some ">" before going off the front of
+        * the string, because will always hit the split->mail_end closing
+        * bracket.
+        */
+       for (cp = line + len - 1; *cp != '>'; cp--)
+               ;
+
+       for (cp = cp + 1; cp < line + len && isspace(*cp); cp++)
                ;
        if (line + len <= cp)
                goto person_only;