Re: PostgreSQL Developer meeting minutes up

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> wrote:
> * Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> [090528 09:49]:
>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> wrote:
>> > All that based on the assumption that when the project switches to git,
>> > they actually want all the CVS history in their official tree.  Its
>> > certainly not necessary, and possibly not even desirable...  PostgreSQL
>> > could just as easily to a "linus" style switch when they switch to git,
>> > and just "import" the latest release in each branch as the starting
>> > point for each branch.  The git repository will have no history, and
>> > people can choose which history they want to graft in...  CVSROOT can be
>> > made available as a historical download.
>>
>> That would suck for me.  I use git log a lot to see how things have
>> changed over time.
>
> No, the whole point is that you graft whatever history *you* want in...
> So if PostgreSQL "offical" git only starts when the offical VCS was in
> git, you graft on gpo, or git, or some personal one-time cvs2git or
> parsecvs history you want in...

I want the project infrastructure to do this for me so I don't have to
do anything except git clone. It's not a big deal for me to port my
WIP over to a new git repo if this one is busted, which it sounds like
it is. But I'm not interested in rolling my own history.

...Robert