| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Recovery Test Framework |
| Date: | 2009-01-12 19:17:26 |
| Message-ID: | 1231787846.30598.113.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org |
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On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 20:43 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
> > git IS a stable archive of what the patches really were.
>
> No. A developer can delete, move and rebase branches in his own
> repository as he likes, and all of those operations "modify history". In
> fact, a developer can completely destroy or take offline his published
> repository. It's *not* an archive.
Yes but I have to pull the whole repo to do it is my point. I can't just
pull down the 8.3 branch. I have to pull down the whole tree and then
work on 8.3.
SVN on the other hand, if I only want to work on trunk, I can check out
trunk and only work (and commit) into trunk.
>
> There's other reasons why I like git very much over cvs, but archiving
> is not one of them.
Oh don't get me wrong. I am not a CVS user on any level except with
PostgreSQL.
Joshua D. Drake
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