revision: improve commit_rewrite_person()

The function, commit_rewrite_person(), is designed to find and replace
an ident string in the header part, and the way it avoids a random
occurrence of "author A U Thor <author@example.com" in the text is by
insisting "author" to appear at the beginning of line by passing
"\nauthor " as "what".

The implementation also doesn't make any effort to limit itself to the
commit header by locating the blank line that appears after the header
part and stopping the search there. Also, the interface forces the
caller to make multiple calls if it wants to rewrite idents on multiple
headers. It shouldn't be the case.

To support the existing caller better, update commit_rewrite_person()
to:
- Make a single pass in the input buffer to locate headers named
  "author" and "committer" and replace idents on them.
- Stop at the end of the header, ensuring that nothing in the body of
  the commit object is modified.

The return type of the function commit_rewrite_person() has also been
changed from int to void. This has been done because the caller of the
function doesn't do anything with the return value of the function.

By simplifying the interface of the commit_rewrite_person(), we also
intend to expose it as a public function. We will also be renaming the
function in a future commit to a different name which clearly tells that
the function replaces idents in the header of the commit buffer.

Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Asthana <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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