Re: Git migration timeline

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 16:15, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 15:58, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> I can see the point of wanting to be dead certain the repository isn't
>>> changing under you during the data migration.  Perhaps we need an agreed
>>> window between last call for commits and the actual lock-out.
>
>> To prevent that, I just need to shut it down for 2 minutes to rsync
>> the latest changes off it and onto the new git box. Maybe that's how
>> we should do it.
>
> That sounds like a reasonable scheme to me, especially since it leaves
> the cvs repository functional.  Dunno about you, but I want a fallback
> plan in case this turns into a disaster ...

Oh, I had no intention whatsoever of *removing* it. Just disabling login to it.

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