From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: mkraai@beckman.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Missing strptime
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:52:42 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0709241750510.3579@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709250127170.28395@racer.site>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-25 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-24 23:35 Missing strptime mkraai
2007-09-25 0:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-25 0:52 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-09-25 1:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
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