From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:03:41 GMT
Subject: Re: git-fast-import
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702061559160.13009@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20070206200924.GA5352@spearce.org>

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Done.  I just pushed a change to gfi which adds `--date-format=<fmt>`.
> For <fmt> you have the choice of:
> 
>   raw: Standard Git format.  This is the default, as its what
>   the existing frontends by Chris Lee, Simon Hausmann, Jon Smirl,
>   and Simon 'corecode' Schubert expect.
> 
>   rfc2822: Run whatever crap you give us through parse_date(),
>   and cross your fingers.  If parse_date() returns < 0 we bomb
>   out, but otherwise take it at its word.

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


Nicolas