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>

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