Re: Feature Freeze date for 8.4

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On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:32:13PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:39:43PM -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> > The one below is already available, so we don't have to do a "flag
> > day" with it.
> >
> > http://repo.or.cz/w/PostgreSQL.git
>
> As someone who hasn't used GIT: if I have a modified CVS tree from some time
> back (>1 year) can I use this to manage the bitrot? Just doing a CVS
> update will probably just mark everything conflicted, so I'm wondering
> is GIT can do it better.

It's no magic, but three-way merges[1] and automatic tracking of file
renames do help quite a bit.

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[1] most distributed SCMs keep enough info around to dig out the last
common ancestor of the two files to be merged and do then a three-way
merge, which is better at resolving conflicts than a naïve direct merge.

Regards
- -- tomás
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