Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Still more tweaking of git_changelog.
> Uhm, could you stop massively changing the behavior of this script
> with no discussion at all?
Uh, there was no discussion of the original behavior of the script
either.
> I happen to think that this is a
> distinctly bad idea. It defeats one of the major use cases of the
> original script, which is being able to easily figure out which
> branches a certain commit is in.
Hm? As far as I can tell, this fixes that not breaks it. The problem
I was seeing was that commits would be attributed to a branch when in
fact they were made before the branch ever existed.
> If you want to have an option for
> this behavior, fine, but please do not presume that everyone wants the
> same thing as you (since that is evidently not the case) or that you
> are the only person who is using it (if that were so, it should be
> stored in your personal workspace, rather than our community
> repository).
I was under the impression that the purpose of the script was to replace
cvs2cl and do approximately what cvs2cl did. If you have another
use-case then please explain what it is and why this change is bad
for it.
regards, tom lane
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