Re: Add .gitignore files to CVS?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Add .gitignore files to CVS?
Date: 2010-01-09 04:08:40
Message-ID: 28167.1263010120@sss.pgh.pa.us
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David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:35:24PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Probably eventually we'll be on git and this will be moot, but that
>> doesn't seem to be ready to happen.

> What still needs to happen on this? Clearly this would be a post-8.5
> (or whatever the new release number is) thing, but apart from that?

AFAIR, we still weren't convinced that we had a 100% conversion method
(ie something that would preserve all the history) and there were still
questions about how to work with multi-branch patches most effectively.
I don't recall where the previous discussion died off exactly, but
it definitely wasn't at the "we're ready to do it" stage.

regards, tom lane

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