Andy Whitcroft wrote: > 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? Or authorepoch. I thought about following rpm idea of format modifiers, like authorepoch:date for strftime(3) "%c" format or commiterepoch:day for strftime(3) "%a %b %d %Y" format. Feel free to provide patches ;-) -- Jakub Narebski Poland - 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