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[PATCH] Set AUTHOR_DATE in git-tools

From
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date
Apr 21, 2005, 07:32 UTC
Message-ID
<1114068737.29135.17.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Entirely untested.
Makefile: eca3a5d5256cca06d86ebb85ec9d3218752ffcd2
applypatch: 397e4a0e506f1c5765767057dfe506154b743b83
--- 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_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
dotest: a3e3d35ae0afa358f01b49eecb358d64c616c3e4
mailinfo.c: c1dcac130530174ec5335d2c752d76403ad1d3ad
--- a/mailinfo.c
+++ b/mailinfo.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ static char line[1000];
 static char name[1000];
 static char email[1000];
 static char subject[1000];
+static char date[1000];
 
 static char *sanity_check(char *name, char *email)
 {
@@ -83,6 +84,11 @@ static void handle_subject(char *line)
 	strcpy(subject, line);
 }
 
+static void handle_date(char *line)
+{
+	strcpy(date, line);
+}
+
 static void add_subject_line(char *line)
 {
 	while (isspace(*line))
@@ -99,6 +105,11 @@ static void check_line(char *line, int l
 		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;
@@ -107,7 +118,7 @@ static void check_line(char *line, int l
 	if (isspace(*line)) {
 		switch (cont) {
 		case 0:
-			fprintf(stderr, "I don't do 'From:' line continuations\n");
+			fprintf(stderr, "I don't do 'From:' or 'Date:' header continuations\n");
 			break;
 		case 1:
 			add_subject_line(line);
@@ -215,7 +226,8 @@ static void handle_rest(void)
 	cleanup_space(name);
 	cleanup_space(email);
 	cleanup_space(sub);
-	printf("Author: %s\nEmail: %s\nSubject: %s\n\n", name, email, sub);
+	cleanup_space(date);
+	printf("Author: %s\nEmail: %s\nSubject: %s\nDate: %s\n", name, email, sub, date);
 	FILE *out = cmitmsg;
 
 	do {
mailsplit.c: 9379fbc5e84983e5ea0754a6587cc3490c696c69
-- 
dwmw2
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