Make a hack to convert-cache for missing author dates in old

[git.git] / convert-cache.c

diff --git a/convert-cache.c b/convert-cache.c
index 35191df..312fb61 100644 (file)
--- a/convert-cache.c
+++ b/convert-cache.c
@@ -233,6 +233,13 @@ static int convert_date_line(char *dst, void **buf, unsigned long *sp)
                return len + datelen;
        }
 
+       /*
+        * Hacky hacky: one of the sparse old-style commits does not have
+        * any date at all, but we can fake it by using the committer date.
+        */
+       if (*date == '\n' && strchr(next, '>'))
+               date = strchr(next, '>')+2;
+
        return len + sprintf(dst, "%lu -0700\n", parse_oldstyle_date(date));
 }