Merge branch 'fk/doc-format-patch-vn' into maint

diff --git a/builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c b/builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c
index 1d962dc569eaafc8429c4cec815922f382c576b9..05f4c263112ae94978e4961988e9a4805fde2427 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c
+++ b/builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c
@@ -223,16 +223,14 @@ static void add_branch_desc(struct strbuf *out, const char *name)
 
 #define util_as_integral(elem) ((intptr_t)((elem)->util))
 
-static void record_person(int which, struct string_list *people,
-                         struct commit *commit)
+static void record_person_from_buf(int which, struct string_list *people,
+                                  const char *buffer)
 {
-       const char *buffer;
        char *name_buf, *name, *name_end;
        struct string_list_item *elem;
        const char *field;
 
        field = (which == 'a') ? "\nauthor " : "\ncommitter ";
-       buffer = get_commit_buffer(commit, NULL);
        name = strstr(buffer, field);
        if (!name)
                return;
@@ -245,7 +243,6 @@ static void record_person(int which, struct string_list *people,
        if (name_end < name)
                return;
        name_buf = xmemdupz(name, name_end - name + 1);
-       unuse_commit_buffer(commit, buffer);
 
        elem = string_list_lookup(people, name_buf);
        if (!elem) {
@@ -256,6 +253,15 @@ static void record_person(int which, struct string_list *people,
        free(name_buf);
 }
 
+
+static void record_person(int which, struct string_list *people,
+                         struct commit *commit)
+{
+       const char *buffer = get_commit_buffer(commit, NULL);
+       record_person_from_buf(which, people, buffer);
+       unuse_commit_buffer(commit, buffer);
+}
+
 static int cmp_string_list_util_as_integral(const void *a_, const void *b_)
 {
        const struct string_list_item *a = a_, *b = b_;