| 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: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian" <cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: missing file in git repo |
| Date: | 2010-05-03 16:33:45 |
| Message-ID: | 20100503163345.GF2986@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane escribió:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > Robert Haas wrote:
> >> - we need to make sure that all the committers understand how to keep
> >> the history the way we want it - i.e. linear, without merges, and
> >> possibly even implement programmatic safeguards against doing anything
> >> else
>
> > That too will be part of my talk. I'm not sure how you would implement
> > such programmatic safeguards, though. We don't have such a huge
> > population of committers that we can't manage this by education, I think.
>
> I agree that programmatic safeguards are probably overkill, as long as
> we have some agreed-on, documented commit procedures. We've survived
> fine without any such backstops for CVS commits.
It would be great to have documented procedures for fixing fat-fingered
commit messages and similar problems, though. Right now we have to live
with redundant commits or replies on the pgsql-committers list.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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