Jakub Narebski wrote: > Andy Whitcroft wrote: > >> + open(H, "git-for-each-ref --format='%(objectname) %(refname)'|") or > > By the way, this is equivalent to using "git-show-ref" introduced by Linus. > But if you want commit timestamp > >> cvsimport opens all of the files in $GIT_DIR/refs/heads and reads >> out the sha1's in order to work out what time the last commit on >> that branch was made (in CVS) thus allowing incremental updates. > > you can use it in --format as well. Unfortuantly, for-each-ref only offers us the textual version of this information not the numeric offset from the epoch which is what cvsimport is after. I guess we could teach for-each-ref to output this as well? Perhaps something like authorstamp? -apw - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html