Merge branch 'wm/shortlog-hash'

Teaches 'shortlog' to explicitly use SHA-1 when operating outside of
a repository.

* wm/shortlog-hash:
  builtin/shortlog: explicitly set hash algo when there is no repo

builtin/shortlog.c

@@ -407,6 +407,18 @@ int cmd_shortlog(int argc,
 
 	struct parse_opt_ctx_t ctx;
 
+	/*
+	 * NEEDSWORK: Later on we'll call parse_revision_opt which relies on
+	 * the hash algorithm being set but since we are operating outside of a
+	 * Git repository we cannot determine one. This is only needed because
+	 * parse_revision_opt expects hexsz for --abbrev which is irrelevant
+	 * for shortlog outside of a git repository. For now explicitly set
+	 * SHA1, but ideally the parsing machinery would be split between
+	 * git/nongit so that we do not have to do this.
+	 */
+	if (nongit && !the_hash_algo)
+		repo_set_hash_algo(the_repository, GIT_HASH_SHA1);
+
 	git_config(git_default_config, NULL);
 	shortlog_init(&log);
 	repo_init_revisions(the_repository, &rev, prefix);

t/t4201-shortlog.sh

@@ -143,6 +143,10 @@ test_expect_success 'shortlog from non-git directory refuses extra arguments' '
 	test_grep "too many arguments" out
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'shortlog --author from non-git directory does not segfault' '
+	nongit git shortlog --author=author </dev/null
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'shortlog should add newline when input line matches wraplen' '
 	cat >expect <<\EOF &&
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