Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fast-import: add new --date-format=raw-permissive format

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 17:20:34 -0700

Elijah Newren wrote:

> From: Elijah Newren <[email-masked]>
>
> There are multiple repositories in the wild with random, invalid
> timezones.  Most notably is a commit from rails.git with a timezone of
> "+051800"[1].  A few searches will find other repos with that same
[...]
> Provide a --date-format=raw-permissive format that will not error out on
> these otherwise invalid timezones so that such existing repositories can
> be imported.
>
> [1] https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/4cf94979c9f4d6683c9338d694d5eb3106a4e734
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/
> [3] https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/issues/88

This could potentially go in a Bug: footer.

> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  fast-import.c          | 15 ++++++++++++---
>  t/t9300-fast-import.sh | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Makes sense.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>

Thanks.