| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> |
| Cc: | "Florian G(dot) Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Hacking on PostgreSQL via GIT |
| Date: | 2007-04-17 01:58:57 |
| Message-ID: | 13369.1176775137@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> writes:
> Now, on my hand-crafted GIT repo - you see them in and out now with
> Tom's commits. But any *real* conversion tracking the *actual* RCS cvs
> states should have them checked out from 1999 to now in the state they
> were from vadim's last changes, and Tom's first commit will "truncate"
> them (because he checked them in as empty files), and the 2nd commit
> will remove them again.
> So it's still a "gotcha" if you're trying to get a copy of CVS from ages
> ago via one of the alternative SCM conversions...
It shouldn't be a big problem, assuming the checkout preserves the file
dates --- they'll look older than the source files and so a rebuild will
happen anyway in such a checkout.
regards, tom lane
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