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| -rw-r--r-- | commit.c | 9 |
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@@ -143,6 +143,15 @@ static timestamp_t parse_commit_date(const char *buf, const char *tail) /* * We know there is at least one digit (or dash), so we'll begin * parsing there and stop at worst case at eol. + * + * Note that we may feed parse_timestamp() extra characters here if the + * commit is malformed, and it will parse as far as it can. For + * example, "123foo456" would return "123". That might be questionable + * (versus returning "0"), but it would help in a hypothetical case + * like "123456+0100", where the whitespace from the timezone is + * missing. Since such syntactic errors may be baked into history and + * hard to correct now, let's err on trying to make our best guess + * here, rather than insist on perfect syntax. */ return parse_timestamp(dateptr, NULL, 10); } |