Re: [PATCH 0/3] fixing some parse_commit() timestamp corner cases

> On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 04:51:03PM +0200, Thomas Bock wrote:
>
>> Even though the affected commit objects are malformed, it would be very
>> helpful if this problem could be solved somehow, from a user perspective.
>> Such malformed objects can potentially occur also in other comparably old
>> projects, where searching for commits that have been made in a specific time
>> window in the past could be useful or even necessary in some cases.
>
> Yeah, after sleeping on it for a bit, I think it is worth fixing. I also
> found another parsing bug in the same function. ;)

>
> So here's the result.
>
>   [1/3]: t4212: avoid putting git on left-hand side of pipe
>   [2/3]: parse_commit(): parse timestamp from end of line
>   [3/3]: parse_commit(): handle broken whitespace-only timestamp
>
>  commit.c               | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  t/t4212-log-corrupt.sh | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> -Peff