cherry-pick: Suggest a better method to retain authorship

diff --git a/fetch-pack.c b/fetch-pack.c
index 83a1d7b319828302582518ef258f931a105e3201..41bdd27b8fce5dd0656b9dcc71e6768f0b4796c6 100644 (file)
--- a/fetch-pack.c
+++ b/fetch-pack.c
@@ -198,13 +198,13 @@ static int find_common(int fd[2], unsigned char *result_sha1,
                int len;
 
                while ((len = packet_read_line(fd[0], line, sizeof(line)))) {
-                       if (!strncmp("shallow ", line, 8)) {
+                       if (!prefixcmp(line, "shallow ")) {
                                if (get_sha1_hex(line + 8, sha1))
                                        die("invalid shallow line: %s", line);
                                register_shallow(sha1);
                                continue;
                        }
-                       if (!strncmp("unshallow ", line, 10)) {
+                       if (!prefixcmp(line, "unshallow ")) {
                                if (get_sha1_hex(line + 10, sha1))
                                        die("invalid unshallow line: %s", line);
                                if (!lookup_object(sha1))
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ static void filter_refs(struct ref **refs, int nr_match, char **match)
                    check_ref_format(ref->name + 5))
                        ; /* trash */
                else if (fetch_all &&
-                        (!depth || strncmp(ref->name, "refs/tags/", 10) )) {
+                        (!depth || prefixcmp(ref->name, "refs/tags/") )) {
                        *newtail = ref;
                        ref->next = NULL;
                        newtail = &ref->next;
@@ -670,7 +670,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
        struct stat st;
 
        setup_git_directory();
-       setup_ident();
        git_config(fetch_pack_config);
 
        if (0 <= transfer_unpack_limit)
@@ -684,11 +683,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
                char *arg = argv[i];
 
                if (*arg == '-') {
-                       if (!strncmp("--upload-pack=", arg, 14)) {
+                       if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--upload-pack=")) {
                                uploadpack = arg + 14;
                                continue;
                        }
-                       if (!strncmp("--exec=", arg, 7)) {
+                       if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--exec=")) {
                                uploadpack = arg + 7;
                                continue;
                        }
@@ -713,7 +712,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
                                verbose = 1;
                                continue;
                        }
-                       if (!strncmp("--depth=", arg, 8)) {
+                       if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--depth=")) {
                                depth = strtol(arg + 8, NULL, 0);
                                if (stat(git_path("shallow"), &st))
                                        st.st_mtime = 0;