From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Thomas Bock <bockthom@cs.uni-saarland.de>
Cc: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/4] parse_commit(): describe more date-parsing failure modes
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 01:55:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230425055519.GD4015649@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230425055244.GA4014505@coredump.intra.peff.net>
The previous few commits improved the parsing of dates in malformed
commit objects. But there's one big case left implicit: we may still
feed garbage to parse_timestamp(). This is preferable to trying to be
more strict, but let's document the thinking in a comment.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
Obviously not strictly necessary, but it felt like this was worth
pointing out, and it felt weird to shove it into patch 3.
commit.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index 2f1b5d505b..2ac141e198 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -136,6 +136,16 @@ static timestamp_t parse_commit_date(const char *buf, const char *tail)
/*
* We know there is at least one non-whitespace character, so we'll
* begin parsing there and stop at worst case at eol.
+ *
+ * Note that we may feed parse_timestamp() non-digit garbage here if
+ * the commit is malformed. If we see a totally unexpected token like
+ * "foo" here, it will return 0, which is our error/sentinel value
+ * anyway. For something like "123foo456", it will parse as far as it
+ * can. That might be questionable (versus returning "0"), but it would
+ * help in a hypothetical case like "123456+0100", where the whitespace
+ * from the timezone is missing. Since such syntactic errors may be
+ * baked into history and hard to correct now, let's err on trying to
+ * make our best guess here, rather than insist on perfect syntax.
*/
return parse_timestamp(dateptr, NULL, 10);
}
--
2.40.0.653.g15ca972062
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-25 5:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-14 11:37 Weird behavior of 'git log --before' or 'git log --date-order': Commits from 2011 are treated to be before 1980 Thomas Bock
2023-04-15 8:52 ` Jeff King
2023-04-15 8:59 ` Jeff King
2023-04-15 14:10 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-04-17 5:40 ` Jeff King
2023-04-17 6:20 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-04-17 7:41 ` Jeff King
2023-04-27 22:32 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-04-17 9:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-18 4:12 ` Jeff King
2023-04-18 14:02 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-04-21 14:51 ` Thomas Bock
2023-04-22 13:41 ` [PATCH 0/3] fixing some parse_commit() timestamp corner cases Jeff King
2023-04-22 13:42 ` [PATCH 1/3] t4212: avoid putting git on left-hand side of pipe Jeff King
2023-04-22 13:47 ` [PATCH 2/3] parse_commit(): parse timestamp from end of line Jeff King
2023-04-24 17:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-25 5:23 ` Jeff King
2023-04-24 16:39 ` [PATCH 0/3] fixing some parse_commit() timestamp corner cases Junio C Hamano
2023-04-25 5:52 ` [PATCH v2 " Jeff King
2023-04-25 5:54 ` Jeff King
2023-04-25 5:54 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] t4212: avoid putting git on left-hand side of pipe Jeff King
2023-04-25 5:54 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] parse_commit(): parse timestamp from end of line Jeff King
2023-04-25 5:54 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] parse_commit(): handle broken whitespace-only timestamp Jeff King
2023-04-25 10:11 ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-25 16:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-26 11:36 ` Jeff King
2023-04-26 15:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-27 8:13 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] fixing some parse_commit() timestamp corner cases Jeff King
2023-04-27 8:14 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] t4212: avoid putting git on left-hand side of pipe Jeff King
2023-04-27 8:14 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] parse_commit(): parse timestamp from end of line Jeff King
2023-04-27 8:17 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] parse_commit(): handle broken whitespace-only timestamp Jeff King
2023-04-27 10:11 ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-27 11:55 ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-27 16:46 ` Jeff King
2023-04-27 16:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-27 16:55 ` Jeff King
2023-04-27 16:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-27 16:57 ` Jeff King
2023-04-27 8:17 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] parse_commit(): describe more date-parsing failure modes Jeff King
2023-04-27 8:18 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] fixing some parse_commit() timestamp corner cases Jeff King
2023-04-27 16:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-26 14:06 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] parse_commit(): handle broken whitespace-only timestamp Phillip Wood
2023-04-26 14:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-04-26 14:44 ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-25 5:55 ` Jeff King [this message]
2023-04-22 13:52 ` Weird behavior of 'git log --before' or 'git log --date-order': Commits from 2011 are treated to be before 1980 Jeff King
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