Re: [PATCH 1/3] Move Git::SVN::get_tz to Git::get_tz_offset

2013-01-16 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ben Walton  writes:

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Junio C Hamano  wrote:
>> Ben Walton  writes:
>>
>>> +sub get_tz_offset {
>>> + # some systmes don't handle or mishandle %z, so be creative.
>>
>> Hmph.  I wonder if we can use %z if it is handled correctly and fall
>> back to this code only on platforms that are broken?
>
> That would be perfectly acceptable to me.  The reason I set it up to
> always run through this function here is that when I originally added
> this function for git-svn, I'd made it conditional and Eric Wong
> preferred that the function be used exclusively[1].  I opted to take
> the same approach here to keep things congrous.
>
> If it were to be conditional, I think I'd add a variable to the build
> system and have the code leverage that at runtime instead of the
> try/except approach I attempted in 2009.

If the code was originally unconditional for a reason (and I think
being bug-to-bug compatible across platforms is actually a good
thing in a tool like importers), I would not object to it.  Thanks
for the back-story.
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Re: [PATCH 1/3] Move Git::SVN::get_tz to Git::get_tz_offset

2013-01-16 Thread Ben Walton
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Junio C Hamano  wrote:
> Ben Walton  writes:
>
>> +sub get_tz_offset {
>> + # some systmes don't handle or mishandle %z, so be creative.
>
> Hmph.  I wonder if we can use %z if it is handled correctly and fall
> back to this code only on platforms that are broken?

That would be perfectly acceptable to me.  The reason I set it up to
always run through this function here is that when I originally added
this function for git-svn, I'd made it conditional and Eric Wong
preferred that the function be used exclusively[1].  I opted to take
the same approach here to keep things congrous.

If it were to be conditional, I think I'd add a variable to the build
system and have the code leverage that at runtime instead of the
try/except approach I attempted in 2009.

Thanks
-Ben

[1] 
http://lists-archives.com/git/683572-git-svn-fix-for-systems-without-strftime-z.html
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Re: [PATCH 1/3] Move Git::SVN::get_tz to Git::get_tz_offset

2013-01-16 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ben Walton  writes:

> +sub get_tz_offset {
> + # some systmes don't handle or mishandle %z, so be creative.

Hmph.  I wonder if we can use %z if it is handled correctly and fall
back to this code only on platforms that are broken?
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