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Re: Parseable commit header

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Apr 17, 2005, 15:57 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0504170856470.7211@ppc970.osdl.org>
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<20050417062236.GA3261@scotty.home>
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Stefan-W. Hahn wrote:
> 
> after playing a while with git-pasky it is a crap to interpret the date of
> commit logs. Though it was a good idea to put the date in a parseable format
> (seconds since), but the format of the commit itself is not good parseable.

Actually, it is. The commit stuff removes all special characters from the strings, so '<' and '>' around the email do indeed act as delimiters, and cannot exist anywhere else.

			Linus
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