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Since some frontends may be working with source material where the dates are only readily available as RFC 2822 strings, it is more friendly if fast-import exposes Git's parse_date() function to handle the conversion. This way the frontend doesn't need to perform the parsing itself. The new --date-format option to fast-import can be used by a frontend to select which format it will supply date strings in. The default is the standard `raw` Git format, which fast-import has always supported. Format rfc2822 can be used to activate the parse_date() function instead. Because fast-import could also be useful for creating new, current commits, the format `now` is also supported to generate the current system timestamp. The implementation of `now` is a trivial call to datestamp(), but is actually a whole whopping 3 lines so that fast-import can verify the frontend really meant `now`. As part of this change I have added validation of the `raw` date format. Prior to this change fast-import would accept anything in a `committer` command, even if it was seriously malformed. Now fast-import requires the '> ' near the end of the string and verifies the timestamp is formatted properly. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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