Linus Torvaldsgitk wasn't able to take to take advantage of the new date parsing of git-rev-parse, because it didn't pass on arguments that needed quoting properly.
This is the black magic incantation necessary to make tcl do this right.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> ---
diff --git a/gitk b/gitk --- a/gitk +++ b/gitk @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ proc getcommits {rargs} { set nextupdate [expr $startmsecs + 100] set ncmupdate 1 if [catch { - set parse_args [concat --default HEAD $rargs] - set parsed_args [split [eval exec git-rev-parse $parse_args] "\n"] + set parse_cmd [concat git-rev-parse --default HEAD $rargs] + set parsed_args [split [eval exec $parse_cmd] "\n"] }] { # if git-rev-parse failed for some reason... if {$rargs == {}} {