Re: PostgreSQL 8.4 development plan

The Git repo certainly is an "incremental" update.

If you ever see a "rewind" (non-fastforward) of the the repo.or.cz
PostgreSQL repo, please let me know...

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* Florian Pflug <fgp(dot)phlo(dot)org(at)gmail(dot)com> [080208 07:50]:

> I've tried with both the SVN and the GIT mirror. Things worked well
> initialled, but in *both* cases pulling changes from the mirror stopped
> working after a few weeks or so. It seems that both of these mirrors
> create the SVN/GIT repo from scratch every time they are updated,
> instead of incrementally pulling the changes from CVS. Since the mapping
> of CVS updates to changesets is based on heuristics, the mapping can
> change for recent commits upon recreation of the mirror. This confuses
> both the GIT and the SVN client, and "svn update" (or "git pull") stops
> working :-(.
>
> For GIT, I've found a workaround - I've hacked together a script which
> uses git-cherry and git-cherry-pick to find changesets on the GIT mirror
> which are not in my local tree.
>
> Is there any chance that these mirrors can be updated in a way that
> doesn't "change the past"?

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