Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D26E362DBF4 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 13:36:23 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 56584-07-4 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 13:36:22 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mx2.hub.org (mx2.hub.org [200.46.204.254]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72EBE63400B for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 13:32:16 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mx2.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B21C71E81769 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 13:31:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n4SGTeBR011595; Thu, 28 May 2009 12:29:40 -0400 (EDT) To: Robert Haas cc: Greg Stark , Andrew Dunstan , Aidan Van Dyk , Heikki Linnakangas , Magnus Hagander , Markus Wanner , PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Developer meeting minutes up In-reply-to: <603c8f070905280926p39c6f2a6g4cfc636f0191919c@mail.gmail.com> References: <10273.1243343651@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20090528020909.GQ15213@yugib.highrise.ca> <603c8f070905271942ke9df2aah8648fe4d1228d43e@mail.gmail.com> <20090528125944.GS15213@yugib.highrise.ca> <603c8f070905280649m5d5fc458se54435dfe20cc7ca@mail.gmail.com> <4A1E9D98.7030208@dunslane.net> <8547.1243522369@sss.pgh.pa.us> <4136ffa0905280804i1653d716j7a39468fc56b5e5c@mail.gmail.com> <603c8f070905280838s5bebb79bn37e4dc4a6c97daf7@mail.gmail.com> <11350.1243527579@sss.pgh.pa.us> <603c8f070905280926p39c6f2a6g4cfc636f0191919c@mail.gmail.com> Comments: In-reply-to Robert Haas message dated "Thu, 28 May 2009 12:26:38 -0400" Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 12:29:40 -0400 Message-ID: <11594.1243528180@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200905/1275 X-Sequence-Number: 138817 Robert Haas writes: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Tom Lane 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