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Fixes quite a lot of brokenness when ident information needs to be taken from the system and cleans up the code. By Jeff King * jk/ident-gecos-strbuf: (22 commits) format-patch: do not use bogus email addresses in message ids ident: reject bogus email addresses with IDENT_STRICT ident: rename IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME to IDENT_STRICT format-patch: use GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL in message ids ident: let callers omit name with fmt_indent ident: refactor NO_DATE flag in fmt_ident ident: reword empty ident error message format-patch: refactor get_patch_filename ident: trim whitespace from default name/email ident: use a dynamic strbuf in fmt_ident ident: use full dns names to generate email addresses ident: report passwd errors with a more friendly message drop length limitations on gecos-derived names and emails ident: don't write fallback username into git_default_name fmt_ident: drop IDENT_WARN_ON_NO_NAME code format-patch: use default email for generating message ids ident: trim trailing newline from /etc/mailname move git_default_* variables to ident.c move identity config parsing to ident.c fmt-merge-msg: don't use static buffer in record_person ...
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