Subject: Re: [PATCH] cvsimport move over to using git for each ref to read refs

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:00:08 +0200

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