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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: git-fast-import
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:03:41 -0500 (EST)
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Done.  I just pushed a change to gfi which adds `--date-format=<fmt>`.
> For <fmt> you have the choice of:
> 
>   raw: Standard Git format.  This is the default, as its what
>   the existing frontends by Chris Lee, Simon Hausmann, Jon Smirl,
>   and Simon 'corecode' Schubert expect.
> 
>   rfc2822: Run whatever crap you give us through parse_date(),
>   and cross your fingers.  If parse_date() returns < 0 we bomb
>   out, but otherwise take it at its word.

I think you should call it something else than rfc2822.  Because 
parse_date() accepts much more than just rfc2822.  What about "cooked"?


Nicolas