Merge branch 'kh/commit'

* kh/commit: (33 commits)
  git-commit --allow-empty
  git-commit: Allow to amend a merge commit that does not change the tree
  quote_path: fix collapsing of relative paths
  Make git status usage say git status instead of git commit
  Fix --signoff in builtin-commit differently.
  git-commit: clean up die messages
  Do not generate full commit log message if it is not going to be used
  Remove git-status from list of scripts as it is builtin
  Fix off-by-one error when truncating the diff out of the commit message.
  builtin-commit.c: export GIT_INDEX_FILE for launch_editor as well.
  Add a few more tests for git-commit
  builtin-commit: Include the diff in the commit message when verbose.
  builtin-commit: fix partial-commit support
  Fix add_files_to_cache() to take pathspec, not user specified list of files
  Export three helper functions from ls-files
  builtin-commit: run commit-msg hook with correct message file
  builtin-commit: do not color status output shown in the message template
  file_exists(): dangling symlinks do exist
  Replace "runstatus" with "status" in the tests
  t7501-commit: Add test for git commit <file> with dirty index.
  ...

ident.c

@@ -182,12 +182,14 @@ static const char *env_hint =
 "Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.\n"
 "\n";
 
-const char *fmt_ident(const char *name, const char *email,
-		      const char *date_str, int error_on_no_name)
+static const char *fmt_ident_1(const char *name, const char *email,
+			       const char *date_str, int flag)
 {
 	static char buffer[1000];
 	char date[50];
 	int i;
+	int error_on_no_name = !!(flag & 01);
+	int name_addr_only = !!(flag & 02);
 
 	setup_ident();
 	if (!name)
@@ -214,20 +216,36 @@ const char *fmt_ident(const char *name, const char *email,
 	}
 
 	strcpy(date, git_default_date);
-	if (date_str)
+	if (!name_addr_only && date_str)
 		parse_date(date_str, date, sizeof(date));
 
 	i = copy(buffer, sizeof(buffer), 0, name);
 	i = add_raw(buffer, sizeof(buffer), i, " <");
 	i = copy(buffer, sizeof(buffer), i, email);
-	i = add_raw(buffer, sizeof(buffer), i, "> ");
-	i = copy(buffer, sizeof(buffer), i, date);
+	if (!name_addr_only) {
+		i = add_raw(buffer, sizeof(buffer), i,  "> ");
+		i = copy(buffer, sizeof(buffer), i, date);
+	} else {
+		i = add_raw(buffer, sizeof(buffer), i, ">");
+	}
 	if (i >= sizeof(buffer))
 		die("Impossibly long personal identifier");
 	buffer[i] = 0;
 	return buffer;
 }
 
+const char *fmt_ident(const char *name, const char *email,
+		      const char *date_str, int error_on_no_name)
+{
+	int flag = (error_on_no_name ? 01 : 0);
+	return fmt_ident_1(name, email, date_str, flag);
+}
+
+const char *fmt_name(const char *name, const char *email)
+{
+	return fmt_ident_1(name, email, NULL, 03);
+}
+
 const char *git_author_info(int error_on_no_name)
 {
 	return fmt_ident(getenv("GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"),