On 2023-08-02 11:09, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
Some time ago Bruno Haible suggested a simpler approach, which may be
better for GNU tar's users. Here's the idea, which requires two passes
over the input files, the first to collect timestamp info:
I like the idea, although I doubt that its
Hi Paul,
> Thanks for looking into this. My first reaction is that it's a bit
> complicated and I would omit --set-mtime-format as being more trouble
> than it's worth,
The idea was to use strptime, which is faster than parse_datetime. But
comparing to the time consumed by git itself (see
On 2023-08-01 06:36, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
Opinions?
Thanks for looking into this. My first reaction is that it's a bit
complicated and I would omit --set-mtime-format as being more trouble
than it's worth, and by default disable warnings about the command
issuing an empty log message.
> 2. The command [2]
>
> implies additional complication, because it is executed in subdirectory.
And I have overlooked yet another similar case, here:
https://github.com/graygnuorg/tz/blob/e1e0f321af3b5e2cf7134455ca7a4151cbfb5d70/Makefile#L1227
Regards,
Sergey
