Default GIT_COMMITTER_NAME to login name in recieve-pack.

If GIT_COMMITTER_NAME is not available in receive-pack but reflogs
are enabled we would normally die out with an error message asking
the user to correct their environment settings.

Now that reflogs are enabled by default in (what we guessed to be)
non-bare Git repositories this may cause problems for some users
who don't have their full name in the gecos field and who don't
have access to the remote system to correct the problem.

So rather than die()'ing out in receive-pack when we try to log a
ref change and have no committer name we default to the username,
as obtained from the host's password database.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 2d3df98dc..b540292d6 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -309,6 +309,7 @@ void datestamp(char *buf, int bufsize);
 unsigned long approxidate(const char *);
 
 extern int setup_ident(void);
+extern void ignore_missing_committer_name();
 extern const char *git_author_info(int);
 extern const char *git_committer_info(int);