From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:52:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Missing strptime
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0709241750510.3579@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709250127170.28395@racer.site>



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