Re: git-svn error: Unable to parse date

[Ward Wouts <ward@wouts.nl>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:38:32AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ward Wouts <ward@wouts.nl> writes:
> 
> > Unable to parse date: 2004-03-09T09:44:33.Z
> >  at /usr/bin/git-svn line 3995
> 
> A very nice problem description, illustrating what the code should accept
> but doesn't.

Thank you.

> > The message goes away with this one character patch:
> >
> > $ diff -bru git-svn*
> > --- git-svn     2009-02-17 10:23:24.000000000 +0100
> > +++ git-svn.orig        2009-02-17 10:20:30.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -2387,7 +2387,7 @@
> >  sub parse_svn_date {
> >         my $date = shift || return '+0000 1970-01-01 00:00:00';
> >         my ($Y,$m,$d,$H,$M,$S) = ($date =~ /^(\d{4})\-(\d\d)\-(\d\d)T
> > -                                           (\d\d)\:(\d\d)\:(\d\d).\d*Z$/x) or
> > +                                           (\d\d)\:(\d\d)\:(\d\d).\d+Z$/x) or
> >                                          croak "Unable to parse date: $date\n";
> >         "+0000 $Y-$m-$d $H:$M:$S";
> >  }
> 
> You had me scratch my head by giving a reverse patch.

Yes, I'm sorry about that. Hopefully my other post about this subject,
sent after the remarks Deskin made, is in the proper format.

> I think neither regexp is quite correct, assuming that SVN timestamp is
> supposed to always have decimal point after seconds, with optional
> fractional part, followed by Z (presumably to mean Zulu).
> 
> -                                           (\d\d)\:(\d\d)\:(\d\d).\d+Z$/x) or
> +                                           (\d\d)\:(\d\d)\:(\d\d)\.\d*Z$/x) or
> 
> The decimal point should get quoted.

I think you're right.

Ward