We used the approxidate() parser for "--expire=<timestamp>" options
of various commands, but it is better to treat --expire=all and
--expire=now a bit more specially than using the current timestamp.
Update "git gc" and "git reflog" with a new parsing function for
expiry dates.
* jc/prune-all:
prune: introduce OPT_EXPIRY_DATE() and use it
api-parse-options.txt: document "no-" for non-boolean options
git-gc.txt, git-reflog.txt: document new expiry options
date.c: add parse_expiry_date()
"git reflog --expire=all" tries to expire reflog entries up to the
current second, because the approxidate() parser gives the current
timestamp for anything it does not understand (and it does not know
what time "all" means). When the user tells us to expire "all" (or
set the expiration time to "now"), the user wants to remove all the
reflog entries (no reflog entry should record future time).
Just set it to ULONG_MAX and to let everything that is older that
timestamp expire.
While at it, allow "now" to be treated the same way for callers that
parse expiry date timestamp with this function. Also use an error
reporting version of approxidate() to report misspelled date. When
the user says e.g. "--expire=mnoday" to delete entries two days or
older on Wednesday, we wouldn't want the "unknown, default to now"
logic to kick in.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix time offset calculation expression in case if time_t
is unsigned. This code works fine for signed and
unsigned time_t.
Signed-off-by: Mike Gorchak <mike.gorchak.qnx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
tm_to_time_t() returns (time_t)-1 when it sees an error. On
platforms with unsigned time_t, this value will be larger than any
valid timestamp and will break the "Is this older than 10 days in
the future?" check.
Signed-off-by: Mike Gorchak <mike.gorchak.qnx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 1.7.9 era, we taught "git rebase" about the raw timestamp format
but we did not teach the same trick to "filter-branch", which rolled
a similar logic on its own. Because of this, "filter-branch" failed
to rewrite commits with ancient timestamps.
* jc/maint-filter-branch-epoch-date:
t7003: add test to filter a branch with a commit at epoch
date.c: Fix off by one error in object-header date parsing
filter-branch: do not forget the '@' prefix to force git-timestamp
It is perfectly OK for a valid decimal integer to begin with '9' but
116eb3a (parse_date(): allow ancient git-timestamp, 2012-02-02) did
not express the range correctly.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The only place that the issue this series addresses was observed
where we read "cat-file commit" output and put it in GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
in order to replay a commit with an ancient timestamp.
With the previous patch alone, "git commit --date='20100917 +0900'"
can be misinterpreted to mean an ancient timestamp, not September in
year 2010. Guard this codepath by requring an extra '@' in front of
the raw git timestamp on the parsing side. This of course needs to
be compensated by updating get_author_ident_from_commit and the code
for "git commit --amend" to prepend '@' to the string read from the
existing commit in the GIT_AUTHOR_DATE environment variable.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The date-time parser parses out a human-readble datestring piece by
piece, so that it could even parse a string in a rather strange
notation like 'noon november 11, 2005', but restricts itself from
parsing strings in "<seconds since epoch> <timezone>" format only
for reasonably new timestamps (like 1974 or newer) with 10 or more
digits. This is to prevent a string like "20100917" from getting
interpreted as seconds since epoch (we want to treat it as September
17, 2010 instead) while doing so.
The same codepath is used to read back the timestamp that we have
already recorded in the headers of commit and tag objects; because
of this, such a commit with timestamp "0 +0000" cannot be rebased or
amended very easily.
Teach parse_date() codepath to special case a string of the form
"<digits> +<4-digits>" to work this issue around, but require that
there is no other cruft around the string when parsing a timestamp
of this format for safety.
Note that this has a slight backward incompatibility implications.
If somebody writes "git commit --date='20100917 +0900'" and wants it
to mean a timestamp in September 2010 in Japan, this change will
break such a use case.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Timezone designators in the following formats are all valid according to
ISO8601:2004, section 4.3.2:
[+-]hh, [+-]hhmm, [+-]hh:mm
but we have ignored the ones with colon so far.
Signed-off-by: Haitao Li <lihaitao@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When relative dates are more than about a year ago, we start
writing them as "Y years, M months". At the point where we
calculate Y and M, we have the time delta specified as a
number of days. We calculate these integers as:
Y = days / 365
M = (days % 365 + 15) / 30
This rounds days in the latter half of a month up to the
nearest month, so that day 16 is "1 month" (or day 381 is "1
year, 1 month").
We don't round the year at all, though, meaning we can end
up with "1 year, 12 months", which is silly; it should just
be "2 years".
Implement this differently with months of size
onemonth = 365/12
so that
totalmonths = (long)( (days + onemonth/2)/onemonth )
years = totalmonths / 12
months = totalmonths % 12
In order to do this without floats, we write the first formula as
totalmonths = (days*12*2 + 365) / (365*2)
Tests and inspiration by Jeff King.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
When no timezone is specified, we deduce the offset by
subtracting the result of mktime from our calculated
timestamp.
However, our timestamp is stored as an unsigned integer,
meaning we perform the subtraction as unsigned. For a
negative offset, this means we wrap to a very high number,
and our numeric timezone is in the millions of hours. You
can see this bug by doing:
$ TZ=EST \
GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='2010-06-01 10:00' \
git commit -a -m foo
$ git cat-file -p HEAD | grep author
author Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 1275404416 +119304128
Instead, we should perform this subtraction as a time_t, the
same type that mktime returns.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
approxidate_relative and approxidate_careful both use parse_date to
dump the timestamp to a character buffer and parse it back into a long
unsigned using strtoul(). Avoid doing this by creating a new
parse_date_toffset method.
Noticed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The name "Z" for the UTC timezone is required to properly parse ISO 8601
timestamps. Add it to the list of recognized timezones.
Because timezone names can be shorter than 3 letters, loosen the
restriction in match_alpha() that used to require at least 3 letters to
match to allow a short timezone name as long as it matches exactly. Prior
to the introduction of the "Z" zone, this already affected the timezone
"NT" (Nome).
Signed-off-by: Marcus Comstedt <marcus@mc.pp.se>
Reviewed-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/maint-reflog-bad-timestamp:
t0101: use a fixed timestamp when searching in the reflog
Update @{bogus.timestamp} fix not to die()
approxidate_careful() reports errorneous date string
For a long time, the time based reflog syntax (e.g. master@{yesterday})
didn't complain when the "human readable" timestamp was misspelled, as
the underlying mechanism tried to be as lenient as possible. The funny
thing was that parsing of "@{now}" even relied on the fact that anything
not recognized by the machinery returned the current timestamp.
Introduce approxidate_careful() that takes an optional pointer to an
integer, that gets assigned 1 when the input does not make sense as a
timestamp.
As I am too lazy to fix all the callers that use approxidate(), most of
the callers do not take advantage of the error checking, but convert the
code to parse reflog to use it as a demonstration.
Tests are mostly from Jeff King.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This fixes '--relative-date' so that it does not give '0
year, 12 months', for the interval 360 <= diff < 365.
Signed-off-by: Johan Sageryd <j416@1616.se>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
These were broken by b5373e9. The problem is that the code
marks the month and year with "-1" for "we don't know it
yet", but the month and year code paths were not adjusted to
fill in the current time before doing their calculations
(whereas other units follow a different code path and are
fine).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The main purpose is to allow predictable testing of the code.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous patch to improve approxidate got us to the point that a lot
of the remaining annoyances were due to the 'strict' date handling running
first, and deciding that it got a good enough date that the approximate
date routines were never even invoked.
For example, using a date string like
6AM, June 7, 2009
the strict date logic would be perfectly happy with the "June 7, 2009"
part, and ignore the 6AM part that it didn't understand - resulting in the
information getting dropped on the floor:
6AM, June 7, 2009 -> Sat Jun 6 00:00:00 2009
and the date being calculated as if it was midnight, and the '6AM' having
confused the date routines into thinking about '6 June' rather than 'June
7' at 6AM (ie notice how the _day_ was wrong due to this, not just the
time).
So this makes the strict date routines a bit stricter, and requires that
not just the date, but also the time, has actually been parsed. With that
fix, and trivial extension of the approxidate routines, git now properly
parses the date as
6AM, June 7, 2009 -> Sun Jun 7 06:00:00 2009
without dropping the fuzzy time ("6AM" or "noon" or any of the other
non-strict time formats) on the floor.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is not a new failure mode - approxidate has always been kind of
random in the input it accepts, but some of the randomness is more
irritating than others.
For example:
Jun 6, 5AM -> Mon Jun 22 05:00:00 2009
5AM Jun 6 -> Sat Jun 6 05:00:00 2009
Whaa? The reason for the above is that approxidate squirrells away the '6'
from "Jun 6" to see if it's going to be a relative number, and then
forgets about it when it sees a new number (the '5' in '5AM'). So the odd
"June 22" date is because today is July 22nd, and if it doesn't have
another day of the month, it will just pick todays mday - having ignored
the '6' entirely due to getting all excited about seeing a new number (5).
There are other oddnesses. This does not fix them all, but I think it
makes for fewer _really_ perplexing cases. At least now we have
Jun 6, 5AM -> Sat Jun 6 05:00:00 2009
5AM, Jun 6 -> Sat Jun 6 05:00:00 2009
which makes me happier. I can still point to cases that don't work as
well, but those are separate issues.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
According to POSIX, tv_sec is supposed to be a time_t, but OpenBSD
(and FreeBSD, too) defines it to be a long, which triggers a type
mismatch when a pointer to it is given to localtime_r().
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, for dates older than 12 months we fell back to just giving the
absolute time. This can be a bit jarring when reading a list of times.
Instead, let's switch to "Y years, M months" for five years, and then just
"Y years" after that.
No particular reason on the 5 year cutoff except that it seemed reasonable
to me.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Talking about --date, one thing I wanted for the 1234567890 date was to
get things in the raw format. Sure, you get them with --pretty=raw, but it
felt a bit sad that you couldn't just ask for the date in raw format.
So here's a throw-away patch (meaning: I won't be re-sending it, because I
really don't think it's a big deal) to add "--date=raw". It just prints
out the internal raw git format - seconds since epoch plus timezone (put
another way: 'date +"%s %z"' format)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The date/time parsing code was confused if the input time HH:MM:SS is
followed by fractional seconds. Since we do not record anything finer
grained than seconds, we could just drop fractional part, but there is a
twist.
We have taught people that not just spaces but dot can be used as word
separators when spelling things like:
$ git log --since 2.days
$ git show @{12:34:56.7.days.ago}
and we shouldn't mistake "7" in the latter example as a fraction and
discard it.
The rules are:
- valid days of month/mday are always single or double digits.
- valid years are either two or four digits
No, we don't support the year 600 _anyway_, since our encoding is based
on the UNIX epoch, and the day we worry about the year 10,000 is far
away and we can raise the limit to five digits when we get closer.
- Other numbers (eg "600 days ago") can have any number of digits, but
they cannot start with a zero. Again, the only exception is for
two-digit numbers, since that is fairly common for dates ("Dec 01" is
not unheard of)
So that means that any milli- or micro-second would be thrown out just
because the number of digits shows that it cannot be an interesting date.
A milli- or micro-second can obviously be a perfectly fine number
according to the rules above, as long as it doesn't start with a '0'. So
if we have
12:34:56.123
then that '123' gets parsed as a number, and we remember it. But because
it's bigger than 31, we'll never use it as such _unless_ there is
something after it to trigger that use.
So you can say "12:34:56.123.days.ago", and because of the "days", that
123 will actually be meaninful now.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit af66366a9f introduced the keyword
"never" to be used with approxidate() but defined it with a fixed date
without taking care of timezone. As a result approxidate() will return
a timestamp in the future with a negative timezone.
With this patch, approxidate("never") always return 0 whatever your
timezone is.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Marin <dkr@freesurf.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Factor out the code to parse --date=<format> parameter to revision
walkers into a separate function, parse_date_format(). This function
is passed a string and converts it to an enum date_format:
- "relative" => DATE_RELATIVE
- "iso8601" or "iso" => DATE_ISO8601
- "rfc2822" => DATE_RFC2822
- "short" => DATE_SHORT
- "local" => DATE_LOCAL
- "default" => DATE_NORMAL
In the event that none of these strings is found, the function die()s.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you want to keep the reflogs around for a really long time, you should be
able to say so:
$ git config gc.reflogExpire never
Now it works, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These days, show_date() takes a date_mode parameter to specify
the output format, and a separate specialized function for dates
in E-mails does not make much sense anymore.
This retires show_rfc2822_date() function and make it just
another date output format.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Support output of full ISO 8601 style dates in e.g. git log
and other places that use interpolation for formatting.
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tests with git-filter-branch on a repository that was converted from
CVS and that has commits reaching back to 1999 revealed that it is
necessary to parse dates before 2000/01/01 when they are specified
as seconds since 1970/01/01. There is now still a limit, 100000000,
which is 1973/03/03 09:46:40 UTC, in order to allow that dates are
represented as 8 digits.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds --date={local,relative,default} option to log family of commands,
to allow displaying timestamps in user's local timezone, relative time, or
the default format.
Existing --relative-date option is a synonym of --date=relative; we could
probably deprecate it in the long run.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now, show_date() can print three different kinds of dates: normal,
relative and short (%Y-%m-%s) dates.
To achieve this, the "int relative" was changed to "enum date_mode
mode", which has three states: DATE_NORMAL, DATE_RELATIVE and
DATE_SHORT.
Since existing users of show_date() only call it with relative_date
being either 0 or 1, and DATE_NORMAL and DATE_RELATIVE having these
values, no behaviour is changed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We pass a timestamp (i.e. number of seconds elapsed since Jan 1 1970,
00:00:00 GMT) to the function. So there is no need to "fix" the
timestamp according to the timezone.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
This is a mechanical clean-up of the way *.c files include
system header files.
(1) sources under compat/, platform sha-1 implementations, and
xdelta code are exempt from the following rules;
(2) the first #include must be "git-compat-util.h" or one of
our own header file that includes it first (e.g. config.h,
builtin.h, pkt-line.h);
(3) system headers that are included in "git-compat-util.h"
need not be included in individual C source files.
(4) "git-compat-util.h" does not have to include subsystem
specific header files (e.g. expat.h).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It just simplifies the whole thing to say
"hour = (hour % 12) + X"
where X is 12 for PM and 0 for AM.
It also fixes the "exact date" parsing, which didn't parse AM at all, and
as such would do the same "12:30 AM" means "12:30 24-hour-format" bug. Of
course, I hope that no exact dates use AM/PM anyway, but since we support
the PM format, let's just get it right.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
You can now say "5:35 PM yesterday", and approxidate() gets the right answer.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Our approxidate cannot handle simple times like "5 PM yesterday", and to
fix that, we will need to add some logic for number handling. This just
splits that out into a function of its own (the same way the _real_ date
parsing works).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I noticed that I was looking at the kernel gitweb output at some point
rather than just do "git log", simply because I liked seeing the
simplified date-format, ie the "5 days ago" rather than a full date.
This adds infrastructure to do that for "git log" too. It does NOT add the
actual flag to enable it, though, so right now this patch is a no-op, but
it should now be easy to add a command line flag (and possibly a config
file option) to just turn on the "relative" date format.
The exact cut-off points when it switches from days to weeks etc are
totally arbitrary, but are picked somewhat to avoid the "1 weeks ago"
thing (by making it show "10 days ago" rather than "1 week", or "70
minutes ago" rather than "1 hour ago").
[jc: with minor fix and tweak around "month" and "week" area.]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
date.c::approxidate_alpha() counts the number of alphabets
while moving the pointer but does not use the count.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When match_digit() guesses a four-digit string to tell if it is
a year or a timezone, it did not consider that some real-world
places have UTC offsets equal to +1400.
$ date; TZ=UTC0 date; TZ=Pacific/Kiritimati date
Wed Jun 7 23:25:42 PDT 2006
Thu Jun 8 06:25:42 UTC 2006
Thu Jun 8 20:25:42 LINT 2006
Signed-off-by: Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Still Work-in-progress git fmt-patch (should it be known as
format-patch-ng?) is matched with the fix made by Huw Davies
in 262a6ef76a commit to use
RFC2822 date format.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This does three things, only applies to cases where the user
manually tries to override the author/commit time by environment
variables, with non-ISO, non-2822 format date-string:
- Refuses to use the interpretation to put the date in the
future; recent kernel history has a commit made with
10/03/2006 which is recorded as October 3rd.
- Adds '.' as the possible year-month-date separator. We
learned from our European friends on the #git channel that
dd.mm.yyyy is the norm there.
- When the separator is '.', we prefer dd.mm.yyyy over
mm.dd.yyyy; otherwise mm/dd/yy[yy] takes precedence over
dd/mm/yy[yy].
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The comment associated with the date parsing code for three
numbers separated with slashes or dashes implied we wanted to
interpret using this order:
yyyy-mm-dd
yyyy-dd-mm
mm-dd-yy
dd-mm-yy
However, the actual code had the last two wrong, and making it
prefer dd-mm-yy format over mm-dd-yy.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Stupid me.
If approxidate ends up with a month that is ahead of the current month, it
decrements the year to last year.
Which is correct, and means that "last december" does the right thing.
HOWEVER. It should only do so if the year is the same as the current year.
Without this fix, "5 days ago" ends up being in 2004, because it first
decrements five days, getting us to December 2005 (correct), but then it
also ends up decrementing the year once more to turn that December into
"last year" (incorrect, since it already _was_ last year).
Duh. Pass me a donut.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, David Roundy wrote:
>
> Don't forget "high noon"! (and perhaps "tea time"?) :)
Done.
[torvalds@g5 git]$ ./test-date "now" "midnight" "high noon" "tea-time"
now -> bad -> Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
now -> Fri Nov 18 08:50:54 2005
midnight -> bad -> Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
midnight -> Fri Nov 18 00:00:00 2005
high noon -> bad -> Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
high noon -> Thu Nov 17 12:00:00 2005
tea-time -> bad -> Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
tea-time -> Thu Nov 17 17:00:00 2005
Thanks for pointing out tea-time.
This is also written to easily extended to allow people to add their own
important dates like Christmas and their own birthdays.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows people to use syntax like "last thursday" for the approxidate.
(Or, indeed, more complex "three thursdays ago", but I suspect that would
be pretty unusual).
NOTE! The parsing is strictly sequential, so if you do
"one day before last thursday"
it will _not_ do what you think it does. It will take the current time,
subtract one day, and then go back to the thursday before that. So to get
what you want, you'd have to write it the other way around:
"last thursday and one day before"
which is insane (it's usually the same as "last wednesday" _except_ if
today is Thursday, in which case "last wednesday" is yesterday, and "last
thursday and one day before" is eight days ago).
Similarly,
"last thursday one month ago"
will first go back to last thursday, and then go back one month from
there, not the other way around.
I doubt anybody would ever use insane dates like that, but I thought I'd
point out that the approxidate parsing is not exactly "standard English".
Side note 2: if you want to avoid spaces (because of quoting issues), you
can use any non-alphanumberic character instead. So
git log --since=2.days.ago
works without any quotes.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Ok. This is the insane patch to do this.
It really isn't very careful, and the reason I call it "approxidate()"
will become obvious when you look at the code. It is very liberal in what
it accepts, to the point where sometimes the results may not make a whole
lot of sense.
It accepts "last week" as a date string, by virtue of "last" parsing as
the number 1, and it totally ignoring superfluous fluff like "ago", so
"last week" ends up being exactly the same thing as "1 week ago". Fine so
far.
It has strange side effects: "last december" will actually parse as "Dec
1", which actually _does_ turn out right, because it will then notice that
it's not December yet, so it will decide that you must be talking about a
date last year. So it actually gets it right, but it's kind of for the
"wrong" reasons.
It also accepts the numbers 1..10 in string format ("one" .. "ten"), so
you can do "ten weeks ago" or "ten hours ago" and it will do the right
thing.
But it will do some really strange thigns too: the string "this will last
forever", will not recognize anyting but "last", which is recognized as
"1", which since it doesn't understand anything else it will think is the
day of the month. So if you do
gitk --since="this will last forever"
the date will actually parse as the first day of the current month.
And it will parse the string "now" as "now", but only because it doesn't
understand it at all, and it makes everything relative to "now".
Similarly, it doesn't actually parse the "ago" or "from now", so "2 weeks
ago" is exactly the same as "2 weeks from now". It's the current date
minus 14 days.
But hey, it's probably better (and certainly faster) than depending on GNU
date. So now you can portably do things like
gitk --since="two weeks and three days ago"
git log --since="July 5"
git-whatchanged --since="10 hours ago"
git log --since="last october"
and it will actually do exactly what you thought it would do (I think). It
will count 17 days backwards, and it will do so even if you don't have GNU
date installed.
(I don't do "last monday" or similar yet, but I can extend it to that too
if people want).
It was kind of fun trying to write code that uses such totally relaxed
"understanding" of dates yet tries to get it right for the trivial cases.
The result should be mixed with a few strange preprocessor tricks, and be
submitted for the IOCCC ;)
Feel free to try it out, and see how many strange dates it gets right. Or
wrong.
And if you find some interesting (and valid - not "interesting" as in
"strange", but "interesting" as in "I'd be interested in actually doing
this) thing it gets wrong - usually by not understanding it and silently
just doing some strange things - please holler.
Now, as usual this certainly hasn't been getting a lot of testing. But my
code always works, no?
Linus
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Do our own ctype.h, just to get the sane semantics: we want
locale-independence, _and_ we want the right signed behaviour. Plus we
only use a very small subset of ctype.h anyway (isspace, isalpha,
isdigit and isalnum).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We generate the ASCII representation of our internal date representation
("seconds since 1970, UTC + timezone information") in two different
places.
One of them uses the stupid and obvious way to make sure that it gets the
sexagecimal representation right for negative timezones even if they might
not be exact hours, and the other one depends on the modulus operator
always matching the sign of argument.
Hey, the clever one works. And C90 even specifies that behaviour. But I
had to think about it for a while when I was re-visiting this area, and
even if I didn't have to, it's kind of strange to have two different ways
to print out the same data format.
So use a common helper for this. And select the stupid and straighforward
way.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Right now we don't return any error value at all from parse_date(), and if
we can't parse it, we just silently leave the result buffer unchanged.
That's fine for the current user, which will always default to the current
date, but it's a crappy interface, and we might well be better off with an
error message rather than just the default date.
So let's change the thing to return a negative value if an error occurs,
and the length of the result otherwise (snprintf behaviour: if the buffer
is too small, it returns how big it _would_ have been).
[ I started looking at this in case we could support date-based revision
names. Looks ugly. Would have to parse relative dates.. ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Usually all of the match_xxx routines in date.c fill tm
structure assuming that the parsed string talks about local
time, and parse_date routine compensates for it by adjusting the
value with tz offset parsed out separately. However, this logic
does not work well when we feed GIT raw commit timestamp to it,
because what match_digits gets is already in GMT.
A good testcase is:
$ make test-date
$ ./test-date 'Fri Jun 24 16:55:27 2005 -0700' '1119657327 -0700'
These two timestamps represent the same time, but the second one
without the fix this commit introduces gives you 7 hours off.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add <limits.h> to the include files handled by "cache.h", and remove
extraneous #include directives from various .c files. The rule is that
"cache.h" gets all the basic stuff, so that we'll have as few system
dependencies as possible.
Fix various things that sparse complains about:
- use NULL instead of 0
- make sure we declare everything properly, or mark it static
- use proper function declarations ("fn(void)" instead of "fn()")
Sparse is always right.
And be a bitmore careful about matching: if we don't recognize a word
or a number, we skip the whole thing, rather than trying the next character
in that word/number.
Finally: since ctime() adds the final '\n', don't add another one in test-date.
This still doesn't actually really _use_ it properly, nor make any
distinction between different DST rules, but at least we could (if
we wanted to) fake it a bit better.
Right now the code actually still says "it's always summer". I'm
from Finland, I don't like winter.
...since everything out there is either strange (libc mktime has issues
with timezones) or introduces unnecessary dependencies for people (libcurl).
This goes back to the old date parsing, but moves it out into a file of
its own, and does the "struct tm" to "seconds since epoch" handling by
hand.
I grepped through the tz-database and it seems there's one "country"
left that has non-60-minute DST: Lord Howe Island. All others dropped
that before 1970.
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Mike Gorchak
Jonathan Nieder
Haitao Li
Michael J Gruber
Jeff King
Ramkumar Ramachandra
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Johan Sageryd
Alex Riesen
Linus Torvalds
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Johannes Sixt
Olivier Marin
Steven Drake
Andy Parkins
Johannes Schindelin
Robin Rosenberg
Junio C Hamano
Linus Torvalds
Pierre Habouzit
Paul Eggert
Linus Torvalds
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