Re: gitweb is no longer a real-time view

On 2013-03-04 09:40:38 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > Andres Freund wrote:
> >> I think the most realistic way to resolve this is to push the current
> >> anongit state to master and cherry-pick
> >> bc61878682051678ade5f59da7bfd90ab72ce13b ontop it. That way only
> >> committers need to deal with rebasing their branches and not everyone
> >> else.
>
> > I agree this seems the sanest course of action, but I think it would be
> > better to install defenses in the master repo so that forced pushes are
> > no longer allowed *before* rebasing gitmaster; otherwise some other
> > committer could clobber things again if they don't force-pull their
> > trees.
>
> Agreed. I'm astonished that we had this configured this way in the
> first place.
>
> FWIW, I noticed something about a "forced update" when I did a git pull
> after Kevin's commits. I failed to pay enough attention though. Now
> that I look, the xml fix is not in my local history either, and I don't
> know what bc61878682051678ade5f59da7bfd90ab72ce13b is because none of
> the recent commits have that hash according to my repo:

That is/was your map_sql_value_to_xml_value() commit which is now not in
the normal history anymore because kevin pushed a HEAD that didn't
include it. You should be able to see it with git show
bc61878682051678ade5f59da7bfd90ab72ce13b

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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