Re: git: uh-oh

On 02/09/10 14:40, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> 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.)

Moving refs can't possibly splice out branch creation commits.

Max.