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-rw-r--r--builtin/commit.c27
-rwxr-xr-xt/t7501-commit.sh12
2 files changed, 35 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index a25661f343..d1c90db95d 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -526,10 +526,29 @@ static int sane_ident_split(struct ident_split *person)
return 1;
}
+static int parse_force_date(const char *in, char *out, int len)
+{
+ if (len < 1)
+ return -1;
+ *out++ = '@';
+ len--;
+
+ if (parse_date(in, out, len) < 0) {
+ int errors = 0;
+ unsigned long t = approxidate_careful(in, &errors);
+ if (errors)
+ return -1;
+ snprintf(out, len, "%lu", t);
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
static void determine_author_info(struct strbuf *author_ident)
{
char *name, *email, *date;
struct ident_split author;
+ char date_buf[64];
name = getenv("GIT_AUTHOR_NAME");
email = getenv("GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL");
@@ -574,8 +593,12 @@ static void determine_author_info(struct strbuf *author_ident)
email = xstrndup(lb + 2, rb - (lb + 2));
}
- if (force_date)
- date = force_date;
+ if (force_date) {
+ if (parse_force_date(force_date, date_buf, sizeof(date_buf)))
+ die(_("invalid date format: %s"), force_date);
+ date = date_buf;
+ }
+
strbuf_addstr(author_ident, fmt_ident(name, email, date, IDENT_STRICT));
if (!split_ident_line(&author, author_ident->buf, author_ident->len) &&
sane_ident_split(&author)) {
diff --git a/t/t7501-commit.sh b/t/t7501-commit.sh
index 5a76823d4c..63e04277f9 100755
--- a/t/t7501-commit.sh
+++ b/t/t7501-commit.sh
@@ -351,8 +351,16 @@ test_expect_success 'commit mentions forced date in output' '
grep "Date: *Sat Jan 2 03:04:05 2010" output
'
-test_expect_success 'commit complains about bogus date' '
- test_must_fail git commit --amend --date=10.11.2010
+test_expect_success 'commit complains about completely bogus dates' '
+ test_must_fail git commit --amend --date=seventeen
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'commit --date allows approxidate' '
+ git commit --amend \
+ --date="midnight the 12th of october, anno domini 1979" &&
+ echo "Fri Oct 12 00:00:00 1979 +0000" >expect &&
+ git log -1 --format=%ad >actual &&
+ test_cmp expect actual
'
test_expect_success 'sign off (1)' '