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Re: Missing strptime

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Sep 25, 2007, 00:52 UTC
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On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> 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
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