From ce98c8fde5cd8e06d2c3cc69f30a7574f8e25b22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:25:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] nickname is optional in patch specs

---
 FORMAT       | 2 +-
 TERMINOLOGY  | 2 ++
 Topbloke.pm  | 3 ++-
 tb-create.pl | 2 ++
 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/FORMAT b/FORMAT
index b755f24..e411d38 100644
--- a/FORMAT
+++ b/FORMAT
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ eg
 NB only exactly that date format is allowed and timezone must be Z.
 
 Patches may be specified as
-	[<qualifier>/...]<nickname-path-spec>
+	[<qualifier>/...][<nickname-path-spec>]
 where <qualifier>/ is one of
 	[<email>]@[<domain.name>/
 		Only patches matching the specified email local part
diff --git a/TERMINOLOGY b/TERMINOLOGY
index bccdf45..6d7bffd 100644
--- a/TERMINOLOGY
+++ b/TERMINOLOGY
@@ -10,3 +10,5 @@ branch
 	any git branch including one of the two branches for a patch
 foreign branch
 	any non-topbloke-controlled branch
+nick
+	final component of a branch name
diff --git a/Topbloke.pm b/Topbloke.pm
index d33d87f..b469f26 100644
--- a/Topbloke.pm
+++ b/Topbloke.pm
@@ -199,8 +199,9 @@ sub parse_patch_spec ($) {
 	@l >= $rel_levels or
 	    die "relative patch spec \`$orig' has too many ../s\n";
 	$_ = (join '/', @l[0..$#l-$rel_levels]).'/'.$_;
+    } elsif (length) {
+	$spec->{Nick} = $_;
     }
-    $spec->{Nick} = $_;
     return $spec;
 }
 
diff --git a/tb-create.pl b/tb-create.pl
index 16954d4..a3fd1b3 100755
--- a/tb-create.pl
+++ b/tb-create.pl
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ if (!defined $spec->{Date}) {
     chomp $spec->{Date} or die $!;
 }
 
+defined $spec->{Nick} or die "no patch nickname specified\n";
+
 length($spec->{Date})==18 or die "partial date specified, not supported\n";
 
 chdir_toplevel();
-- 
2.30.2