Re: moving from contrib to bin

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: moving from contrib to bin
Date: 2014-12-12 16:45:12
Message-ID: 20141212164512.GB25589@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-12-12 11:42:57 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > I think the amount of effort a simple renamed directory which wholly
> > contains a binary creates is acceptable. Just use patch -p4 instead of
> > patch -p1...
>
> That is fine if you are manually applying a patch that touches only
> that directory, but if the patch also touches other stuff then it's
> not as simple.

I think backpatchable commits that touch individual binaries and other
code at the same time are (and ought to be!) pretty rare.

> And I don't know how well git cherry-pick will follow
> the moves.

Not well if the patch is done in master first.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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