Re: Problem in GIT mirror (was Re: pgsql: Fix all the server-side SIGQUIT handlers ...)

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Problem in GIT mirror (was Re: pgsql: Fix all the server-side SIGQUIT handlers ...)
Date: 2009-05-18 16:50:04
Message-ID: 20090518165004.GI10339@alvh.no-ip.org
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David Fetter wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:29:00AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:

> > > Something you will definitively not like about Git is that we will
> > > lose the $PostgreSQL$ expansion stuff -- and there's no equivalent
> > > functionality AFAIK.
> >
> > Well, that particular thing always struck me as something we did
> > because we could, not because there was any important requirement
> > for it.
>
> What's it doing exactly?

What it does is expand the $PostgreSQL$ tag found in the files to
a string containing the current revision number, last author and change
date, etc.

> Is there some way to get similar functionality in git?

No AFAIK.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

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