Re: Missing strptime

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 25, 2007, 00:30 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709250127170.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <OF8EBEA0A7.5425E9EA-ON88257360.00812AEA-88257360.00819919@beckman.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, mkraai@beckman.com wrote:

> I'm porting Git to QNX.

That's nice!

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> 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