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Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:53:10 -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 Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca> wrote:
> * Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> [090528 09:49]:
>> 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. =A0Its
>> > certainly not necessary, and possibly not even desirable... =A0Postgre=
SQL
>> > 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. =A0The git repository will have no history, and
>> > people can choose which history they want to graft in... =A0CVSROOT ca=
n be
>> > made available as a historical download.
>>
>> That would suck for me. =A0I use git log a lot to see how things have
>> changed over time.
>
> No, the whole point is that you graft whatever history *you* want in...
> So if PostgreSQL "offical" git only starts when the offical VCS was in
> git, you graft on gpo, or git, or some personal one-time cvs2git or
> parsecvs history you want in...

I want the project infrastructure to do this for me so I don't have to
do anything except git clone.  It's not a big deal for me to port my
WIP over to a new git repo if this one is busted, which it sounds like
it is.  But I'm not interested in rolling my own history.

...Robert