Allow cloning to an existing empty directory

diff --git a/builtin-commit-tree.c b/builtin-commit-tree.c
index 291c43cf70d7906b770911a7bcb2cdff9c6182e7..0453425c471f1d6793bc7f5f59d17e9d285ddfc6 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-commit-tree.c
+++ b/builtin-commit-tree.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ static void check_valid(unsigned char *sha1, enum object_type expect)
                    typename(expect));
 }
 
-static const char commit_tree_usage[] = "git-commit-tree <sha1> [-p <sha1>]* < changelog";
+static const char commit_tree_usage[] = "git commit-tree <sha1> [-p <sha1>]* < changelog";
 
 static void new_parent(struct commit *parent, struct commit_list **parents_p)
 {
@@ -46,8 +46,10 @@ static const char commit_utf8_warn[] =
 "variable i18n.commitencoding to the encoding your project uses.\n";
 
 int commit_tree(const char *msg, unsigned char *tree,
-               struct commit_list *parents, unsigned char *ret)
+               struct commit_list *parents, unsigned char *ret,
+               const char *author)
 {
+       int result;
        int encoding_is_utf8;
        struct strbuf buffer;
 
@@ -73,7 +75,9 @@ int commit_tree(const char *msg, unsigned char *tree,
        }
 
        /* Person/date information */
-       strbuf_addf(&buffer, "author %s\n", git_author_info(IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME));
+       if (!author)
+               author = git_author_info(IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME);
+       strbuf_addf(&buffer, "author %s\n", author);
        strbuf_addf(&buffer, "committer %s\n", git_committer_info(IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME));
        if (!encoding_is_utf8)
                strbuf_addf(&buffer, "encoding %s\n", git_commit_encoding);
@@ -86,7 +90,9 @@ int commit_tree(const char *msg, unsigned char *tree,
        if (encoding_is_utf8 && !is_utf8(buffer.buf))
                fprintf(stderr, commit_utf8_warn);
 
-       return write_sha1_file(buffer.buf, buffer.len, commit_type, ret);
+       result = write_sha1_file(buffer.buf, buffer.len, commit_type, ret);
+       strbuf_release(&buffer);
+       return result;
 }
 
 int cmd_commit_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
@@ -120,7 +126,7 @@ int cmd_commit_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
        if (strbuf_read(&buffer, 0, 0) < 0)
                die("git commit-tree: read returned %s", strerror(errno));
 
-       if (!commit_tree(buffer.buf, tree_sha1, parents, commit_sha1)) {
+       if (!commit_tree(buffer.buf, tree_sha1, parents, commit_sha1, NULL)) {
                printf("%s\n", sha1_to_hex(commit_sha1));
                return 0;
        }