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account42
3 months ago
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Forging signed commits on GitHub
This is all speculation of course but a parser is more likely to recognize the author: prefix and then error out on anything unexpected in the rest of the line. Meanwhile regular expressions don't have any way to report errors.
glenjamin
3 months ago
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Personally I’d have separated finding the Author line from pulling out the contents of that line - but still used Regex
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