From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
Subject: | Re: Problem in GIT mirror (was Re: pgsql: Fix all the server-side SIGQUIT handlers ...) |
Date: | 2009-05-17 18:15:40 |
Message-ID: | 20090517181540.GD8486@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Problem:
> cvs-to-git mirror is buggy
>
> Proposed solution:
> install git and git-to-cvs emulator
>
> We should assume this will be less buggy?
Well, actually yes -- the git-to-cvs mechanism is integrated in Git,
whereas the cvs-to-git mirror is a rather unsupported hack.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-cvsserver.html
Something you will definitively not like about Git is that we will lose
the $PostgreSQL$ expansion stuff -- and there's no equivalent
functionality AFAIK.
> Oh, and the first case is not project-critical infrastructure but the
> second will be.
Git has been used by the Linux developers long enough that it's easy to
have confidence that it will serve us fine.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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