Re: cvs to git migration - keywords

Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

>>> 1) We can migrate the repository with the keywords, and then make one big
>>> commit just after (or before, that doesn't make a difference) removing
>>> them. In this case, backbranches and tags look exactly like they do
>>> now, but it also means if you do "git diff" between old versions, the
>>> keywords will show up there.

>> +1 for #1. Changing history and the resulting possibility of becoming
>> one's own grandfather always makes me nervous.

> Yeah. One concrete problem with removing the $PostgreSQL$ lines is it
> will affect line numbering everywhere. Yeah, it's only off-by-one, but
> there could still be confusion.
> [...]

If not the whole line was removed, but only the
"$PostgreSQL$" part, the numbering should stay the same. I
guess it would otherwise be challenging to automatically not
only delete the "$PostgreSQL$" line, but also leading and/or
trailing empty (comment) lines, and not mess up.

Tim