Re: Report: removing the inconsistencies in our CVS->git conversion

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Magnus posted an updated conversion this morning.
>
>> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql-migration.git;a=summary
>
>> Evidently, however, he didn't do the same things you did, because
>> there are DEFINITELY more than 9 manufactured commits in this one.
>
> Um ... I just did
>        git clone git://git.postgresql.org/git/postgresql-migration.git
> and I only see nine.  It's got some *other* problems though; compared
> to a conversion I just finished locally, it's missing a whole lot of
> history for some of the old jdbc files.
>
> Is there any possibility that "git clone" isn't very trustworthy?
> It's a bit scary that we don't see identical views of this repository.

*scratches head*

I did a git-fetch into an existing copy of the old contents of that
repository, rather than a fresh clone. Let me nuke it and start over.

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