From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Missing strptime Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:52:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Cc: mkraai@beckman.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 25 02:52:57 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IZyfW-0001ja-VV for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:52:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753705AbXIYAws (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:52:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753981AbXIYAws (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:52:48 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:36173 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753681AbXIYAwr (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:52:47 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [207.189.120.55]) by smtp2.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l8P0qgpK022075 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:52:44 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l8P0qgBj026043; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:52:42 -0700 In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.737 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-osdl_revision__1.39__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.185 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 207.189.120.14 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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