Missing strptime

Missing strptime

[mkraai]

Howdy,

I'm porting Git to QNX.  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?

Matt

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Re: Missing strptime

[Johannes Schindelin]

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

Re: Missing strptime

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> 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.

Actually, it also changes the date format, I think.

> 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.

Agreed. It probably might as well just be moved to contrib and let it 
bitrot.

		Linus

Re: Missing strptime

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Actually, it also changes the date format, I think.

Yes, right, that was actually why strptime() was needed.

Ciao,
Dscho