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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 21:29:11 -0400
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Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Developer meeting minutes up
From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>,
	Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>,
	Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>,
	PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca> wrote:
> =A0 =A0gpo: from git://git.postgresql.org/git/postgresql.git
> =A0 =A0git: from git://repo.or.cz/PostgreSQL.git
[...]
> But the gpo conversion seems to be in pretty bad shape:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0aidan@db1-dapper:/tmp$ grep 'new file' pg-gpo-* | wc
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0301 =A0 =A01245 =A0 14096
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-MANUAL_DIST.diff =A0 =A0 =A0 =A00 files changed
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-PG95-DIST.diff =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A00 files changed
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-PG95_DIST.diff =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A02 files changed, =
2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-REL2_0B.diff =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A02 files changed=
, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-REL6_4.diff =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 12 files change=
d, 51 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-REL6_5_PATCHES.diff =A0 =A0 12 files changed, 59 in=
sertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-REL7_0_PATCHES.diff =A0 =A0 3 files changed, 8 inse=
rtions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-REL7_1_STABLE.diff =A0 =A0 =A022 files changed, 147=
 insertions(+), 144 deletions(-)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-REL7_2_STABLE.diff =A0 =A0 =A030 files changed, 153=
 insertions(+), 150 deletions(-)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-REL7_3_STABLE.diff =A0 =A0 =A058 files changed, 925=
 insertions(+), 167 deletions(-)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-REL7_4_STABLE.diff =A0 =A0 =A0136 files changed, 43=
302 insertions(+), 169 deletions(-)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-REL8_0_0.diff =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 31 files changed,=
 2288 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-REL8_0_STABLE.diff =A0 =A0 =A0206 files changed, 16=
289 insertions(+), 11798 deletions(-)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-REL8_1_STABLE.diff =A0 =A0 =A0155 files changed, 24=
386 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-REL8_2_STABLE.diff =A0 =A0 =A024 files changed, 26 =
insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-REL8_3_STABLE.diff =A0 =A0 =A023 files changed, 25 =
insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-Release_1_0_3.diff =A0 =A0 =A02 files changed, 2 in=
sertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-WIN32_DEV.diff =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0119 files changed=
, 16637 insertions(+), 169 deletions(-)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-ecpg_big_bison.diff =A0 =A0 0 files changed
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pg-gpo-master.diff =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 81 files change=
d, 85 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0TOTAL =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A06=
27 files changed, 104387 insertions(+), 12819 deletions(-)
>
> And actually looking at the history of the gpo repo, the branches are all
> messed up with "merges" and stuff that I'm not sure where they are coming
> from... =A08.2, 8.3, and master(HEAD) are all the same as my gpo repo, bu=
t the
> back branchs are very bad...

This is really quite horrible.  What is the best way forward here?

...Robert