From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 23:08:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fast-import: add new --date-format=raw-permissive format
Message-ID: <xmqqpnan1wue.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.795.v2.git.git.1590698437607.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> Provide a --date-format=raw-permissive format that will not error out on
> these otherwise invalid timezones so that such existing repositories can
> be imported.

So the idea is to just propagate whatever raw timestamp plus
timezone we read from the input stream, which most likely has been
copied from a (broken) raw commit object, to a rewritten commit?

Makes sense.  Will queue.

Thanks.