Re: Git out of sync vs. CVS

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, peter_e <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Git out of sync vs. CVS
Date: 2010-01-21 14:54:47
Message-ID: 7316.1264085687@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 21:07, Kevin Grittner
>> Reality check: does the frequency of lost CVS commits within git
>> seem consistent with this theory?

> Well, supposedly all our servers are synced with NTP. I know the main
> cvs server is, and the git server is, but it goes past the anoncvs
> server which is a hub.org server so I don't know for sure there - but
> I think it is? So I don't think it's the machines-out-of-sync issue.
> Or at least the window for that is *really* small.

I have noticed that CVS operations (at least from the user's viewpoint)
work in local time. So even if the clocks are synced, a different TZ
setting could conceivably lead to issues.

regards, tom lane

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