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diff --git a/lib/git/objects/utils.py b/lib/git/objects/utils.py
index 15c1d114..9b9e0c52 100644
--- a/lib/git/objects/utils.py
+++ b/lib/git/objects/utils.py
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@
"""
Module for general utility functions
"""
+import re
import commit, tag, blob, tree
+from git.actor import Actor
def get_object_type_by_name(object_type_name):
"""
@@ -34,3 +36,20 @@ def get_object_type_by_name(object_type_name):
return tree.Tree
else:
raise ValueError("Cannot handle unknown object type: %s" % object_type_name)
+
+
+# precompiled regex
+_re_actor_epoch = re.compile(r'^.+? (.*) (\d+) .*$')
+
+def parse_actor_and_date(line):
+ """
+ Parse out the actor (author or committer) info from a line like::
+
+ author Tom Preston-Werner <tom@mojombo.com> 1191999972 -0700
+
+ Returns
+ [Actor, int_seconds_since_epoch]
+ """
+ m = _re_actor_epoch.search(line)
+ actor, epoch = m.groups()
+ return (Actor._from_string(actor), int(epoch))