Re: [HACKERS] Policy decisions and cosmetic issues remaining for the git conversion

2010-09-13 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander writes: > Yeah, let's not touch the CVS side, but definitely +1 for dropping > them from git (in fact, my script does this automatically if I just > let it run through all the steps, which I've repeatedly not done which > is why they've sometimes shown up and sometimes not in the o

Re: [HACKERS] Policy decisions and cosmetic issues remaining for the git conversion

2010-09-13 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 18:31, Tom Lane wrote: > This is an attempt to sum up the open issues remaining before we can > make another try at converting our source code to git. > * The REL8_0_0 branch needs to be downgraded to a tag, as previously > discussed. Yeah, and that's easily done. > *

Re: [HACKERS] Policy decisions and cosmetic issues remaining for the git conversion

2010-09-13 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 19:14, Robert Haas wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Alvaro Herrera > wrote: >> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of lun sep 13 12:31:53 -0400 2010: >> >>> * As I noted previously, up till about 2003 we were quite haphazard about >>> applying CVS tags to identify t

Re: [HACKERS] Policy decisions and cosmetic issues remaining for the git conversion

2010-09-13 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Well, the other side of that argument is that changing these things in >> the CVS repository will be overwriting the available evidence, in case >> any questions come up later.  On the git side, applying the tag to the >> a

Re: [HACKERS] Policy decisions and cosmetic issues remaining for the git conversion

2010-09-13 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas writes: >> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Alvaro Herrera >> wrote: >>> +1 on both -- fixing the broken tags, and creating the missing tags, >>> particularly since you already seem to have found out the necessary >>> dates for the

Re: [HACKERS] Policy decisions and cosmetic issues remaining for the git conversion

2010-09-13 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Alvaro Herrera > wrote: >> +1 on both -- fixing the broken tags, and creating the missing tags, >> particularly since you already seem to have found out the necessary >> dates for the missing tags. > +1 from me, too. I don't agree with sta

Re: [HACKERS] Policy decisions and cosmetic issues remaining for the git conversion

2010-09-13 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of lun sep 13 12:31:53 -0400 2010: > >> * As I noted previously, up till about 2003 we were quite haphazard about >> applying CVS tags to identify the points where releases were made.  Should >> we try to cl

Re: [HACKERS] Policy decisions and cosmetic issues remaining for the git conversion

2010-09-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of lun sep 13 12:31:53 -0400 2010: > * As I noted previously, up till about 2003 we were quite haphazard about > applying CVS tags to identify the points where releases were made. Should > we try to clean that up? I think there is a stronger case for moving the >

Re: [HACKERS] Policy decisions and cosmetic issues remaining for the git conversion

2010-09-13 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 13/09/10 19:31, Tom Lane wrote: * If we do the above, should it be done in the existing CVS repository or just as part of the conversion to git? (I suspect it'd be a lot easier in git.) Similarly, ought we to fix the now-known tagging inconsistencies in the CVS repository, or just leave it f

Re: [HACKERS] Policy decisions and cosmetic issues remaining for the git conversion

2010-09-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 12:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > This is an attempt to sum up the open issues remaining before we can > make another try at converting our source code to git. > > * As I noted previously, up till about 2003 we were quite haphazard about > applying CVS tags to identify the point

[HACKERS] Policy decisions and cosmetic issues remaining for the git conversion

2010-09-13 Thread Tom Lane
This is an attempt to sum up the open issues remaining before we can make another try at converting our source code to git. * As I noted previously, up till about 2003 we were quite haphazard about applying CVS tags to identify the points where releases were made. Should we try to clean that up?