Having utf-8 in the commit metada (e.g author, commit message, file
names) triggered a decoding error:

"UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd7 in position 42: ordinal not in range(128)"

This is because the __unicode__ method of the Commit class, doesn't
actually return an object of type 'unicode' although it should.

Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>

Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>

This delivery method exists for the benefit of sourceforge,
which does not allow hooks to access the network except through email.

Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>

Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>

With a delay of 0.5 seconds, freenode starts dropping messages
bunched in large groups after about 18 of them.

Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>

- invalid options should print usage

Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>

Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>

Same as Git, without the last part about timezone though.

Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>

This gives the same date format as the Git extractor

Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>

So they can be handled by the filter hook.
For now, only git is handled.

Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>

Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>

Truncate messages that are longer than 512 bytes and catch any exceptions irclib throws about rejected messages.

Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>