Re: PostgreSQL Developer meeting minutes up

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> wrote:
>    gpo: from git://git.postgresql.org/git/postgresql.git
>    git: from git://repo.or.cz/PostgreSQL.git
[...]
> But the gpo conversion seems to be in pretty bad shape:
>        aidan(at)db1-dapper:/tmp$ grep 'new file' pg-gpo-* | wc
>            301    1245   14096
>
>        pg-gpo-MANUAL_DIST.diff        0 files changed
>        pg-gpo-PG95-DIST.diff          0 files changed
>        pg-gpo-PG95_DIST.diff          2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>        pg-gpo-REL2_0B.diff            2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>        pg-gpo-REL6_4.diff             12 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>        pg-gpo-REL6_5_PATCHES.diff     12 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>        pg-gpo-REL7_0_PATCHES.diff     3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>        pg-gpo-REL7_1_STABLE.diff      22 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 144 deletions(-)
>        pg-gpo-REL7_2_STABLE.diff      30 files changed, 153 insertions(+), 150 deletions(-)
>        pg-gpo-REL7_3_STABLE.diff      58 files changed, 925 insertions(+), 167 deletions(-)
>        pg-gpo-REL7_4_STABLE.diff      136 files changed, 43302 insertions(+), 169 deletions(-)
>        pg-gpo-REL8_0_0.diff           31 files changed, 2288 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>        pg-gpo-REL8_0_STABLE.diff      206 files changed, 16289 insertions(+), 11798 deletions(-)
>        pg-gpo-REL8_1_STABLE.diff      155 files changed, 24386 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>        pg-gpo-REL8_2_STABLE.diff      24 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>        pg-gpo-REL8_3_STABLE.diff      23 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>        pg-gpo-Release_1_0_3.diff      2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>        pg-gpo-WIN32_DEV.diff          119 files changed, 16637 insertions(+), 169 deletions(-)
>        pg-gpo-ecpg_big_bison.diff     0 files changed
>        pg-gpo-master.diff             81 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
>        TOTAL                          627 files changed, 104387 insertions(+), 12819 deletions(-)
>
> And actually looking at the history of the gpo repo, the branches are all
> messed up with "merges" and stuff that I'm not sure where they are coming
> from...  8.2, 8.3, and master(HEAD) are all the same as my gpo repo, but the
> back branchs are very bad...

This is really quite horrible. What is the best way forward here?

...Robert