[PATCH] Return proper error valud from "parse_date()"

Right now we don't return any error value at all from parse_date(), and if
we can't parse it, we just silently leave the result buffer unchanged.

That's fine for the current user, which will always default to the current
date, but it's a crappy interface, and we might well be better off with an
error message rather than just the default date.

So let's change the thing to return a negative value if an error occurs,
and the length of the result otherwise (snprintf behaviour: if the buffer
is too small, it returns how big it _would_ have been).

[ I started looking at this in case we could support date-based revision
  names. Looks ugly. Would have to parse relative dates.. ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 7f209794ba..e589918320 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ extern void *read_object_with_reference(const unsigned char *sha1,
 					unsigned char *sha1_ret);
 
 const char *show_date(unsigned long time, int timezone);
-void parse_date(const char *date, char *buf, int bufsize);
+int parse_date(const char *date, char *buf, int bufsize);
 void datestamp(char *buf, int bufsize);
 
 extern int setup_ident(void);