Hi, On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, David Greaves wrote: > I recently converted a set of patches to a git repository. > > In order to use the correct timestamps my script used a 'faketime' > solution I found here: > > http://www.code-wizards.com/projects/libfaketime/ > > I used a perl subroutine that takes a time (obtained by stat()ing the > original patch or looking in logs) and then the normal 'system()' args. > > sub faketime_system { > my $time=shift; > > $ENV{"LD_PRELOAD"}="/everything/devel/faketime/libfaketime-0.6/libfaketime.so.1"; > $ENV{"FAKETIME_FMT"}='%s'; > $ENV{'FAKETIME'}=$time; > system @_; > $ENV{"LD_PRELOAD"}=""; > } > > > so: > $time=(stat("$tarfile"))[9]; > faketime_system ($time, "tar xfj $tarfile"); > > or: > $time=(stat("$patchfile"))[9]; > faketime_system ($time, "zcat $patchfile | patch -f -p1"); > faketime_system ($time, "git add ."); > > HTH someone else... Wow. That is sure one of the most complicated ways to go about it. IMO GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE (mentioned in Documentation/git.txt, and described in Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt) would have been the tools to use. Hth, Dscho - 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
