Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote: > This is therefore a damn good idea if gfi can make things right out of > crap because frontends will not get much attention after the first "hey > it works" level. And the GIT date format, albeit being perfectly > unambigous, is not inline with the statement above. Done. I just pushed a change to gfi which adds `--date-format=<fmt>`. For <fmt> you have the choice of: raw: Standard Git format. This is the default, as its what the existing frontends by Chris Lee, Simon Hausmann, Jon Smirl, and Simon 'corecode' Schubert expect. rfc2822: Run whatever crap you give us through parse_date(), and cross your fingers. If parse_date() returns < 0 we bomb out, but otherwise take it at its word. now: This is a toy, but useful if you really want now, dammit. We just call datestamp() and tack that in. Note that the frontend must also supply the literal string `now` in the committer line (e.g. "committer A U Thor <at@xxxxxxxxxxx> now") to prevent us from bombing out. The last one will probably get more useful when I fix gfi so it can safely commit against active refs without losing commits (make it do a strict fast-forward check before updating). In this case it may be useful for something like git-cvsserver, as it avoids the need for a temporary directory, index, etc. -- Shawn. - 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