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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Developer meeting minutes up
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 12:29:40 -0400
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I think
>> we will have to make a clean cutover from "CVS is authoritative" to
>> "CVS is dead and git is authoritative", and do a fresh repository
>> conversion at that instant.  What we should be doing to get prepared for
>> that is testing various conversion tools to see which one gives us the
>> best conversion.  And fixing anything in the CVS repository that is
>> preventing getting a sane conversion.

> That might work, but then we better be pretty darn confident that that
> "fresh conversion" is actually correct.

Well, yeah, which is one of several reasons why this isn't happening
tomorrow ;-).  Whatever tool we use should have survived a good deal
of advance testing.

			regards, tom lane



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