Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03C196335B4 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 11:20:51 -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 16293-02 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 11:20:49 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from alexis.jtlnet.com (alexis.jtlnet.com [69.36.9.81]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF9176348C1 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 11:20:49 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.10.103] (cpe-075-177-154-027.nc.res.rr.com [::ffff:75.177.154.27]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by alexis.jtlnet.com with esmtp; Thu, 28 May 2009 10:17:40 -0400 id 00080718.4A1E9D05.00003AC0 Message-ID: <4A1E9D98.7030208@dunslane.net> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:20:08 -0400 From: Andrew Dunstan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20071019 Fedora/1.0.9-3.fc6 pango-text SeaMonkey/1.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Haas CC: Aidan Van Dyk , Heikki Linnakangas , Magnus Hagander , Markus Wanner , PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Developer meeting minutes up References: <10273.1243343651@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20090526144812.GC15213@yugib.highrise.ca> <20090527121532.83276r2btyqp716s@mail.bluegap.ch> <4A1D1E64.6030908@hagander.net> <4A1D2290.7060907@enterprisedb.com> <20090527212240.GP15213@yugib.highrise.ca> <603c8f070905271829i9458bdftcaed2dadb0a74583@mail.gmail.com> <20090528020909.GQ15213@yugib.highrise.ca> <603c8f070905271942ke9df2aah8648fe4d1228d43e@mail.gmail.com> <20090528125944.GS15213@yugib.highrise.ca> <603c8f070905280649m5d5fc458se54435dfe20cc7ca@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <603c8f070905280649m5d5fc458se54435dfe20cc7ca@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 200905/1236 X-Sequence-Number: 138778 Robert Haas wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Aidan Van Dyk 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