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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
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 10:20:08 -0400
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Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca> wrote:
>   
>> All that based on the assumption that when the project switches to git,
>> they actually want all the CVS history in their official tree.  Its
>> certainly not necessary, and possibly not even desirable...  PostgreSQL
>> could just as easily to a "linus" style switch when they switch to git,
>> and just "import" the latest release in each branch as the starting
>> point for each branch.  The git repository will have no history, and
>> people can choose which history they want to graft in...  CVSROOT can be
>> made available as a historical download.
>>     
>
> That would suck for me.  I use git log a lot to see how things have
> changed over time.
>
>
>   

Indeed. Losing the history is not an acceptable option.

cheers

andrew



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