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>

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

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>

---
for non-ascii input, irkerhook.py dies with:

remote: Traceback (most recent call last):
remote:   File "/usr/bin/irkerhook.py", line 484, in <module>
remote:     ship(extractor, commit, not notify)
remote:   File "/usr/bin/irkerhook.py", line 391, in ship
remote:     metadata = extractor.commit_factory(commit)
remote:   File "/usr/bin/irkerhook.py", line 262, in commit_factory
remote:     metainfo = do("git log -1 '--pretty=format:%an <%ae>|%s' " +
shellquote(commit.commit))
remote:   File "/usr/bin/irkerhook.py", line 50, in do
remote:     return unicode(commands.getstatusoutput(command)[1],
locale.getpreferredencoding() or 'UTF-8')
remote: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in
position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

for e.g. this author name:
$ git log -n1 --pretty="format:%an" | cat;echo
Timo Teräs
$ git log -n1 --pretty="format:%an" | od -x;echo
0000000 6954 6f6d 5420 7265 a4c3 0073
0000013
So:
$ for i in C POSIX en_US.UTF-8;do echo "# $i";LC_ALL=$i python -c
"import locale;print locale.getlocale()[1];print unicode(\"ä\",
locale.getlocale()[1] or 'UTF-8').encode(locale.getlocale()[1] or
'UTF-8')";done
None
ä
None
ä
None
ä

The constructed mercurial url is wrong - it creates urls like
"repo/rev3456fg", which just get redirected to the default log, rather
than the commit. The url should be "repo/rev/3456fg".

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

This does not change anything for tinyurl (the default), but allows
using http://tinyarro.ws/api-create.php?utfpure=1&url=


In case invalid characters are encountered, fall back to str.

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

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

AI0867 reported this was causing a rare hang during disconnect.
Also, set the connection status to expired if the thread terminates
due to exception.

Boom!  Blew up, first time tested.

Alas, the fix violates RFC2812.