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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-fast-import
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:48:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070206054808.GA10508@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702052248070.19212@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > The time of the change is specified by `<time>` as the number of
> > seconds since the UNIX epoc (midnight, Jan 1, 1970, UTC) and is
> > written in base-10 notation using US-ASCII digits.  The committer's
> > timezone is specified by `<tz>` as a positive or negative offset
> > from UTC, in minutes.  For example EST would be expressed in `<tz>`
> > by ``-0500''.
> 
> I think this is quite error prone, demonstrated by the fact that we 
> screwed that up ourselves on a few occasions.  I think that the frontend 
> should be relieved from this by letting it provide the time of change in 
> a more natural format amongst all possible ones(like RFC2822 for 
> example) and gfi should simply give it to parse_date().

This is a really good point.  Its a little bit of work to switch
to parse_date(); I'll try to get it done tomorrow night.

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-06  5:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-06  2:31 git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-06  3:18 ` git-fast-import Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-06  4:06 ` git-fast-import Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-06  5:48   ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-02-06 16:35     ` git-fast-import Linus Torvalds
2007-02-06 16:56       ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-06 17:20         ` git-fast-import Linus Torvalds
2007-02-06 18:53           ` git-fast-import Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-06 20:09             ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-06 21:03               ` git-fast-import Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-06 21:15                 ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-06 21:42                   ` git-fast-import Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-07 10:58             ` git-fast-import David Woodhouse
2007-02-06  6:12 ` git-fast-import Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-02-06  6:18   ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-07  4:55     ` git-fast-import Daniel Barkalow
2007-02-07  9:13       ` git-fast-import Karl Hasselström
2007-02-07 11:17         ` git-fast-import Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-07 22:55           ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-07 23:55             ` git-fast-import Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-08  0:12               ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-08 16:56               ` git-fast-import Linus Torvalds
2007-02-08 19:10                 ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-09  8:49                   ` git-fast-import Karl Hasselström
2007-02-09 15:47                     ` git-fast-import Linus Torvalds
2007-02-07  9:29       ` git-fast-import Raimund Bauer
2007-02-07 13:38       ` git-fast-import David Woodhouse
2007-02-06  9:28 ` git-fast-import Andy Parkins
2007-02-06  9:40   ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-06 16:37   ` git-fast-import Linus Torvalds
2007-02-06 16:44     ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-06 17:24       ` git-fast-import Linus Torvalds
2007-02-07  1:17       ` git-fast-import Horst H. von Brand
2007-02-07  2:50         ` git-fast-import Linus Torvalds
2007-02-07  5:53           ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-07  9:21             ` git-fast-import Karl Hasselström
2007-02-07 22:18             ` git-fast-import Horst H. von Brand
2007-02-07 22:31               ` git-fast-import Jakub Narebski
2007-02-07 22:39               ` git-fast-import Linus Torvalds
2007-02-08 21:34           ` git-fast-import Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-07  5:46         ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-07  4:45       ` git-fast-import Daniel Barkalow
2007-02-06  9:34 ` git-fast-import Jakub Narebski
2007-02-06  9:39   ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-06  9:53 ` git-fast-import Jakub Narebski
2007-02-06 17:20   ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-06 13:50 ` git-fast-import Alex Riesen
2007-02-06 17:43   ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-06 18:02     ` git-fast-import Alex Riesen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-06  2:51 git-fast-import Jon Smirl
2006-08-06  3:40 ` git-fast-import Shawn Pearce
2006-08-06  4:09   ` git-fast-import Jon Smirl

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