Invalid argument/parse error with dates in Git commit messages

[fschmied]

The following git log file leads to an error when invoking Code Maat (winmaat0.8.5) using maat -l evo.Sample.log -c git -a summary:

[611a2fe] User2 2016-03-11 (JIRA-789) Some text (see mails of 2016-03-11).
12  3   Project.UnitTests/Spec.cs
3   3   OtherProject.UnitTests/OtherSpec.cs

The error message is:

Invalid argument:  input: [611a2fe] User2 2016-03-11 (JIRA-789) Some text (see mails of 2016-03-11).
12      3       Project.UnitTests/Spec.cs
3       3       OtherProject.UnitTests/OtherSpec.cs
, reason: Parse error at line 1, column 73:
[611a2fe] User2 2016-03-11 (JIRA-789) Some text (see mails of 2016-03-11).
                                                                        ^
Expected:
#"\s"

This is Code Maat, a program used to collect statistics from a VCS.
[...]

Code Maat seems to interpret the date within the message as something to be parsed rather than treating it as an opaque part of the commit message.

[adamtornhill]

Thanks for spotting this! I don't know when I'll get around to fix the parser. Fortunately, there's a second log format that don't suffer this problem. Check the documentation of Code Maat's -c git2 parse option. Please note that it requires a different input log format.

[adamtornhill]

Solved by fixing a bug in the negative look-ahead used in the git parser.