From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:43:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Corrupted (?) commit 6e6db85e confusing gitk
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712021441110.8458@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wa4vkev.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>



On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> I recall that the very initial git did not use the current format for
> timestamp but ctime() return value

Yes, but..

> and this will also notice them (and convert-objects will be there for 
> us).

.. I don't think we have actually accepted the ctime-string format since 
switchng over, so no existing git repositories will have them. The commit 
date parsing just does a "strtoul()" in parse_commit_date().

So I wouldn't expect convert-objects to be needed - or rather, it was 
needed 2.5 _years_ ago, and we've not supported those early broken formats 
since, afaik.

			Linus