Re: git-fast-import

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Feb 6, 2007, 21:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20070206211547.GB5820@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702061559160.13009@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:

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

It does accept a lot more than that, but straying away from rfc2822 gets into the grey areas of parse_date(). E.g. it matches crap such as 'yyyy-mm-dd' or 'yyyy-dd-mm'. But that is completely ambiguous!

I don't really want to advertise that it is accepting non-RFC 2822 input here. I was thinking of doing an `iso` (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss) format, which may just defer into parse_date(), but again encourage the frontend to *only* feed that ISO style format.

-- 
Shawn.

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