Re: git: uh-oh

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger(at)alum(dot)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
>> What weirdness, exactly, are you discussing now? I've lost track of
>> which problem(s) are still unresolved.
>
> Lots of commits that look like this:
>
> commit c50da22b6050e0bdd5e2ef97541d91aa1d2e63fb
> Author: PostgreSQL Daemon <webmaster(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Date: Sat Dec 2 08:36:42 2006 +0000
>
> This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create branch 'REL8_2_STABLE'.
>
> Sprout from master 2006-12-02 08:36:41 UTC PostgreSQL Daemon
> <webmaster(at)postgresql(dot)org> ''
> Delete:
> src/backend/parser/gram.c
> src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.c
> src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/preproc.c

I addressed that problem in this email:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-08/msg01819.php

Summary: it is caused by a known weakness in cvs2svn's
branch-parent-choosing code that would be difficult to solve.

But it just occurred to me--the script contrib/git-move-refs.py is
supposed to fix problems like this. Have you run this script against
your git repository? (Caveat: I am not very familiar with the script,
which was contributed by a user. Please check the results carefully and
let us know how it works for you.)

Michael