Get AUTHOR_DATE from the email Date: line

Now that git does pretty reliable date parsing, we might as well get
the date from the email itself. Of course, it's still questionable
whether the date on the email is all that relevant, but it's certainly
no worse than taking the commit date.

diff --git a/applypatch b/applypatch
index 97274a158ef9ae7ead580ac7811f44221256d8fa..500720171f0ba29b9e34e2a7049969e00a3cc254 100755 (executable)
--- a/applypatch
+++ b/applypatch
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ EDIT=${EDIT:-vi}
 
 export AUTHOR_NAME="$(sed -n '/^Author/ s/Author: //p' .dotest/info)"
 export AUTHOR_EMAIL="$(sed -n '/^Email/ s/Email: //p' .dotest/info)"
 
 export AUTHOR_NAME="$(sed -n '/^Author/ s/Author: //p' .dotest/info)"
 export AUTHOR_EMAIL="$(sed -n '/^Email/ s/Email: //p' .dotest/info)"

+export AUTHOR_DATE="$(sed -n '/^Date/ s/Date: //p' .dotest/info)"

 export SUBJECT="$(sed -n '/^Subject/ s/Subject: //p' .dotest/info)"
 
 if [ -n "$signoff" -a -f "$signoff" ]; then
 export SUBJECT="$(sed -n '/^Subject/ s/Subject: //p' .dotest/info)"
 
 if [ -n "$signoff" -a -f "$signoff" ]; then

diff --git a/mailinfo.c b/mailinfo.c
index c1dcac130530174ec5335d2c752d76403ad1d3ad..13c1e951ac2d24cb9ecaeb743406a5318ccd5d9c 100644 (file)
--- a/mailinfo.c
+++ b/mailinfo.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 static FILE *cmitmsg, *patchfile, *filelist;
 
 static char line[1000];
 static FILE *cmitmsg, *patchfile, *filelist;
 
 static char line[1000];

+static char date[1000];

 static char name[1000];
 static char email[1000];
 static char subject[1000];
 static char name[1000];
 static char email[1000];
 static char subject[1000];


@@ -78,6 +79,11 @@ static int handle_from(char *line)
        return 1;
 }
 
        return 1;
 }
 

+static void handle_date(char *line)
+{
+       strcpy(date, line);
+}
+

 static void handle_subject(char *line)
 {
        strcpy(subject, line);
 static void handle_subject(char *line)
 {
        strcpy(subject, line);


@@ -99,6 +105,11 @@ static void check_line(char *line, int len)
                cont = 0;
                return;
        }
                cont = 0;
                return;
        }

+       if (!memcmp(line, "Date:", 5) && isspace(line[5])) {
+               handle_date(line+6);
+               cont = 0;
+               return;
+       }

        if (!memcmp(line, "Subject:", 8) && isspace(line[8])) {
                handle_subject(line+9);
                cont = 1;
        if (!memcmp(line, "Subject:", 8) && isspace(line[8])) {
                handle_subject(line+9);
                cont = 1;


@@ -107,7 +118,7 @@ static void check_line(char *line, int len)
        if (isspace(*line)) {
                switch (cont) {
                case 0:
        if (isspace(*line)) {
                switch (cont) {
                case 0:

-                       fprintf(stderr, "I don't do 'From:' line continuations\n");
+                       fprintf(stderr, "I don't do 'Date:' or 'From:' line continuations\n");

                        break;
                case 1:
                        add_subject_line(line);
                        break;
                case 1:
                        add_subject_line(line);


@@ -213,9 +224,10 @@ static void handle_rest(void)
 {
        char *sub = cleanup_subject(subject);
        cleanup_space(name);
 {
        char *sub = cleanup_subject(subject);
        cleanup_space(name);

+       cleanup_space(date);

        cleanup_space(email);
        cleanup_space(sub);
        cleanup_space(email);
        cleanup_space(sub);

-       printf("Author: %s\nEmail: %s\nSubject: %s\n\n", name, email, sub);
+       printf("Author: %s\nEmail: %s\nSubject: %s\nDate: %s\n\n", name, email, sub, date);

        FILE *out = cmitmsg;
 
        do {
        FILE *out = cmitmsg;
 
        do {