ident: add the ability to provide a "fallback identity"

In 3bc2111 (stash: tolerate missing user identity, 2018-11-18),
`git stash` learned to provide a fallback identity for the case that no
proper name/email was given (and `git stash` does not really care about
a correct identity anyway, but it does want to create a commit object).

In preparation for the same functionality in the upcoming built-in
version of `git stash`, let's offer the same functionality as an API
function.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: dscho

cache.h

@@ -1491,6 +1491,7 @@ extern const char *git_sequence_editor(void);
 extern const char *git_pager(int stdout_is_tty);
 extern int is_terminal_dumb(void);
 extern int git_ident_config(const char *, const char *, void *);
+void prepare_fallback_ident(const char *name, const char *email);
 extern void reset_ident_date(void);
 
 struct ident_split {

ident.c

@@ -505,6 +505,26 @@ int git_ident_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *data)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static void set_env_if(const char *key, const char *value, int *given, int bit)
+{
+	if ((*given & bit) || getenv(key))
+		return; /* nothing to do */
+	setenv(key, value, 0);
+	*given |= bit;
+}
+
+void prepare_fallback_ident(const char *name, const char *email)
+{
+	set_env_if("GIT_AUTHOR_NAME", name,
+		   &author_ident_explicitly_given, IDENT_NAME_GIVEN);
+	set_env_if("GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL", email,
+		   &author_ident_explicitly_given, IDENT_MAIL_GIVEN);
+	set_env_if("GIT_COMMITTER_NAME", name,
+		   &committer_ident_explicitly_given, IDENT_NAME_GIVEN);
+	set_env_if("GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL", email,
+		   &committer_ident_explicitly_given, IDENT_MAIL_GIVEN);
+}
+
 static int buf_cmp(const char *a_begin, const char *a_end,
 		   const char *b_begin, const char *b_end)
 {