Re: Missing strptime

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, mkraai@beckman.com wrote:

> I'm porting Git to QNX.

That's nice!

> Its C library doesn't provide strptime, so I'd was planning to use the 
> Gnulib implementation.  Is that OK?  If so, should I try to leave it as 
> close to upstream's version as possible or should I remove all of the 
> unneeded cruft?  If not, is there an alternative implementation I should 
> use?

The only user for strptime is convert-objects, a program that should 
probably move to contrib/ anyway.  It was used once, a long time ago, to 
convert from the old format, which hashed the compressed contents, to the 
current format, which hashes the contents _before_ compression.

AFAIAC if a similar need should arise, the better alternative would be to 
write git-fast-export, a tool which dumps the contents of a repository 
suitable to pipe into git-fast-import.

FWIW in mingw.git, we disabled convert-objects already a long time ago.

Ciao,
Dscho