Avoid misleading success message on error

[git.git] / rev-parse.c

diff --git a/rev-parse.c b/rev-parse.c
index 5a98982..bb4949a 100644 (file)
--- a/rev-parse.c
+++ b/rev-parse.c
@@ -131,25 +131,12 @@ static int show_reference(const char *refname, const unsigned char *sha1)
 
 static void show_datestring(const char *flag, const char *datestr)
 {
-       FILE *date;
        static char buffer[100];
-       static char cmd[1000];
-       int len;
 
        /* date handling requires both flags and revs */
        if ((filter & (DO_FLAGS | DO_REVS)) != (DO_FLAGS | DO_REVS))
                return;
-       len = strlen(flag);
-       memcpy(buffer, flag, len);
-
-       snprintf(cmd, sizeof(cmd), "date --date=%s +%%s", sq_quote(datestr));
-       date = popen(cmd, "r");
-       if (!date || !fgets(buffer + len, sizeof(buffer) - len, date))
-               die("git-rev-list: bad date string");
-       pclose(date);
-       len = strlen(buffer);
-       if (buffer[len-1] == '\n')
-               buffer[--len] = 0;
+       snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%s%lu", flag, approxidate(datestr));
        show(buffer);
 }