From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:22:07 GMT
Subject: Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504270820370.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <426F2671.1080105@zytor.com>



On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> One solution to all of this would be to define a quoting standard for 
> strings, and simply require that all free-format strings (like the 
> author fields) or at least strings that match [0-9a-f]{20}, are always 
> quoted.

git uses more of the ".newsrc" format, in that it just knows which 
characters are legal or not.

To find the email address, look for the first '<'. To find the date, look 
for the first '>'. Those characters are not allowed in the name or the 
email, so they act as well-defined delimeters.

		Linus