On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:31:00AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Aidan Van Dyk wrote: > > * David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080710 10:19]: > > > > 2. Allow people who are not currently committers on CVS HEAD to > > > make needed changes. > > > > Uh, the point of git is it's distributed, so you don't need to be > > involved for them to do that.... > > Yep. People can already clone the master Pg trunk, and start from > there to build patches. If they use their *private* repos for this, > awesome -- they have complete history. If they want other > developers to chime in with further patches, they just need to > publish their repos,
Publishing those repos is easiest on git.postgresql.org. > and let other clone them. Then, they can pull from those other > repos, or allow others to push. Again, git.postgresql.org is good for this and other places are not for reasons I've mentioned before. > If you want to keep updating to trunk as it moves forward, I guess > you'd need to propagate the changes from trunk to your RECURSIVE > repo. And if upstream changes the patch to fix some bug, you really > need that bugfix to show as a separate (and probably very small) > patch. > > Unapplying the patch and applying it back seems the worst way to > proceed. Fine. I proceeded in ignorance and will fix. I'm more than delighted to start the whole thing over based on this. > Like Aidan, I think that trying to centralize the GIT repo is trying to > circumvent GIT's design ideas rather than working with them. It's not about centralizing, but about letting a bunch of people publish their changes to the same spot without being committers on the Postgres project. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
