From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:57:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Parseable commit header
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504170856470.7211@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <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