On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > The only user for strptime is convert-objects, a program that should > probably move to contrib/ anyway. It was used once, a long time ago, to > convert from the old format, which hashed the compressed contents, to the > current format, which hashes the contents _before_ compression. Actually, it also changes the date format, I think. > AFAIAC if a similar need should arise, the better alternative would be to > write git-fast-export, a tool which dumps the contents of a repository > suitable to pipe into git-fast-import. Agreed. It probably might as well just be moved to contrib and let it bitrot. Linus - 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
