Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18604632E7C for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 08:23:04 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 44927-07 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 08:22:56 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from exprod7og123.obsmtp.com (exprod7og123.obsmtp.com [64.18.2.24]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C58E1632CBE for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 08:23:01 -0300 (ADT) Received: from source ([209.85.219.169]) by exprod7ob123.postini.com ([64.18.6.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKSh0ilFoKFtkQI9Tu8c5Z3oxcb+5bQPLO@postini.com; Wed, 27 May 2009 04:23:01 PDT Received: by ewy17 with SMTP id 17so4570443ewy.28 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 04:22:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.19.7 with SMTP id 7mr1633166ebs.2.1243423379393; Wed, 27 May 2009 04:22:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?80.223.212.7? (dsl-hkibrasgw2-fed4df00-7.dhcp.inet.fi [80.223.212.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm6645000eyz.41.2009.05.27.04.22.57 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 27 May 2009 04:22:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A1D2290.7060907@enterprisedb.com> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:22:56 +0300 From: Heikki Linnakangas Organization: EnterpriseDB User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Magnus Hagander CC: Markus Wanner , Aidan Van Dyk , Andrew Dunstan , PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Developer meeting minutes up References: <937d27e10904270840vaf70c0fr37518478b31d8a15@mail.gmail.com> <4A189843.3010200@agliodbs.com> <20090524165012.GL8123@tamriel.snowman.net> <4A1A52F5.7030009@hagander.net> <20090525122821.GO8123@tamriel.snowman.net> <4A1BABBC.7070803@hagander.net> <4A1BE039.70008@dunslane.net> <10273.1243343651@sss.pgh.pa.us> <4A1BFF70.4000506@dunslane.net> <20090526144812.GC15213@yugib.highrise.ca> <20090527121532.83276r2btyqp716s@mail.bluegap.ch> <4A1D1E64.6030908@hagander.net> In-Reply-To: <4A1D1E64.6030908@hagander.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200905/1089 X-Sequence-Number: 138631 Magnus Hagander wrote: > Markus Wanner wrote: >> Quoting "Aidan Van Dyk" : >>> This has been raised and ignored many times before on -hackers... The >>> reason is because the tags in the CVS repository are "broken" >> Please keep in mind that the amount of "brokenness" here depends a lot >> on the tool used for the conversion to git. AFAIK 'git cvsimport' is >> used for the conversion of the Postgres repository to git. git-cvsimport >> uses cvsps, which is known for its deficiencies. > > No, we use fromcvs, not "git cvsimport". > > IIRC that was the only one people could make working with incremental > updates. Right. When I looked at the converters last time, there was others that produce a better conversion, but they didn't work incrementally. If we're going to switch over the main repository, we should look at the alternatives. OTOH, there's some value in staying with current GIT repository. In EnterpriseDB, we maintain all the Oracle-compatibility stuff in a GIT repository that's based on the PostgreSQL mirror. If PostgreSQL switches to a new GIT repository/mirror, I'll have to rebase all that, and I'm not sure how well that works with all the merges and stuff. I'm probably the one with most complex situation, but others who have work-in-progress patches in local repositories will face the same issue at a smaller scale. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com