Export parse_date_basic() to convert a date string to timestamp

approxidate() is not appropriate for reading machine-written dates
because it guesses instead of erroring out on malformed dates.
parse_date() is less convenient since it returns its output as a
string.  So export the underlying function that writes a timestamp.

While at it, change the return value to match the usual convention:
return 0 for success and -1 for failure.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index c9fa3df7f5..68258be97d 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -811,6 +811,7 @@ const char *show_date_relative(unsigned long time, int tz,
 			       char *timebuf,
 			       size_t timebuf_size);
 int parse_date(const char *date, char *buf, int bufsize);
+int parse_date_basic(const char *date, unsigned long *timestamp, int *offset);
 void datestamp(char *buf, int bufsize);
 #define approxidate(s) approxidate_careful((s), NULL)
 unsigned long approxidate_careful(const char *, int *);