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Archaic date formats
- From: esr at thyrsus dot com (Eric S. Raymond)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:54:53 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Archaic date formats
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Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>:
> * There's an older ChangeLog style that the code doesn't handle but which
> can be found in older GCC commits, with header lines such as:
>
> Tue Dec 9 01:16:06 1997 Jeffrey A Law (law@cygnus.com)
>
> This format sometimes has the email address surrounded by (), sometimes by
> <>. There are a few log entries with a hybrid of old and new forms, where
> there is a yyyy-mm-dd date but an email address surrounded by ().
All these are now handled properly, and there's a unit test.
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