introduce "format" date-mode

This feeds the format directly to strftime. Besides being a
little more flexible, the main advantage is that your system
strftime may know more about your locale's preferred format
(e.g., how to spell the days of the week).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jeff King
2015-06-25 12:55:45 -04:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent a5481a6c94
commit aa1462cc3d
8 changed files with 61 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -709,3 +709,32 @@ char *xstrfmt(const char *fmt, ...)
return ret;
}
void strbuf_addftime(struct strbuf *sb, const char *fmt, const struct tm *tm)
{
size_t len;
/*
* strftime reports "0" if it could not fit the result in the buffer.
* Unfortunately, it also reports "0" if the requested time string
* takes 0 bytes. So if we were to probe and grow, we have to choose
* some arbitrary cap beyond which we guess that the format probably
* just results in a 0-length output. Since we have to choose some
* reasonable cap anyway, and since it is not that big, we may
* as well just grow to their in the first place.
*/
strbuf_grow(sb, 128);
len = strftime(sb->buf + sb->len, sb->alloc - sb->len, fmt, tm);
if (!len) {
/*
* Either we failed, or the format actually produces a 0-length
* output. There's not much we can do, so we leave it blank.
* However, the output array is left in an undefined state, so
* we must re-assert our NUL terminator.
*/
sb->buf[sb->len] = '\0';
} else {
sb->len += len;
}
}