Re: Git conversion status

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Git conversion status
Date: 2010-09-20 19:09:18
Message-ID: 15439.1285009758@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> This is not even close to matching the tarballs :-(. Seems to be a
>> locale problem: the diffs look like
>>
>> 1c1
>> < /* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/citext/citext.sql.in,v 1.3 2008/09/05 18:25:16 tgl Exp $ */
>> ---
> /* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/citext/citext.sql.in,v 1.3 2008-09-05 18:25:16 tgl Exp $ */

> As a curiosity, I do prefer the dashed dates. I have had a number of
> cases where I have to change dashes to slashes when passing ISO dates as
> parameters to CVS. Shame they improve it just as we are leaving CVS.

Yeah. It appears that this was prompted by a desire to match ISO style
going forward. I wouldn't be against that necessarily if we were
keeping the keywords and not getting rid of them. But since we are
going to get rid of them going forward, I think what we want this
conversion to do is match what's in the historical tarballs.

regards, tom lane

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