Re: Add .gitignore files to CVS?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Add .gitignore files to CVS?
Date: 2010-01-09 04:54:25
Message-ID: 20100109045425.GF3635@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane escribió:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:35:24PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Probably eventually we'll be on git and this will be moot, but that
> >> doesn't seem to be ready to happen.
>
> > What still needs to happen on this? Clearly this would be a post-8.5
> > (or whatever the new release number is) thing, but apart from that?
>
> AFAIR, we still weren't convinced that we had a 100% conversion method
> (ie something that would preserve all the history) and there were still
> questions about how to work with multi-branch patches most effectively.
> I don't recall where the previous discussion died off exactly, but
> it definitely wasn't at the "we're ready to do it" stage.

Somebody did a pull of all the tags, and some of them were missing files
and failed to build.

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