Re: PostgreSQL Developer meeting minutes up

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Developer meeting minutes up
Date: 2009-05-28 16:29:40
Message-ID: 11594.1243528180@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I think
>> we will have to make a clean cutover from "CVS is authoritative" to
>> "CVS is dead and git is authoritative", and do a fresh repository
>> conversion at that instant. What we should be doing to get prepared for
>> that is testing various conversion tools to see which one gives us the
>> best conversion. And fixing anything in the CVS repository that is
>> preventing getting a sane conversion.

> That might work, but then we better be pretty darn confident that that
> "fresh conversion" is actually correct.

Well, yeah, which is one of several reasons why this isn't happening
tomorrow ;-). Whatever tool we use should have survived a good deal
of advance testing.

regards, tom lane

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