[PATCH 1/4] Add parse_date_format() convenience function for converting a format string to an enum date_mode

From

APAndy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>

Date

Sep 28, 2007, 14:17 UTC

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<200709281517.26627.andyparkins@gmail.com>

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<200709281516.05438.andyparkins@gmail.com>

 - "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>
---
 cache.h |    1 +
 date.c  |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 8246500..5587f7e 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -432,6 +432,7 @@ const char *show_date(unsigned long time, int timezone, enum date_mode mode);
 int parse_date(const char *date, char *buf, int bufsize);
 void datestamp(char *buf, int bufsize);
 unsigned long approxidate(const char *);
+enum date_mode parse_date_format(const char *format);
 
 extern const char *git_author_info(int);
 extern const char *git_committer_info(int);
diff --git a/date.c b/date.c
index 93bef6e..8f70500 100644
--- a/date.c
+++ b/date.c
@@ -584,6 +584,26 @@ int parse_date(const char *date, char *result, int maxlen)
 	return date_string(then, offset, result, maxlen);
 }
 
+enum date_mode parse_date_format(const char *format)
+{
+	if (!strcmp(format, "relative"))
+		return DATE_RELATIVE;
+	else if (!strcmp(format, "iso8601") ||
+		 !strcmp(format, "iso"))
+		return DATE_ISO8601;
+	else if (!strcmp(format, "rfc2822") ||
+		 !strcmp(format, "rfc"))
+		return DATE_RFC2822;
+	else if (!strcmp(format, "short"))
+		return DATE_SHORT;
+	else if (!strcmp(format, "local"))
+		return DATE_LOCAL;
+	else if (!strcmp(format, "default"))
+		return DATE_NORMAL;
+	else
+		die("unknown date format %s", format);
+}
+
 void datestamp(char *buf, int bufsize)
 {
 	time_t now;

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