Re: Posting to hackers and patches lists

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:55:57AM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Zdenek Kotala" <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM> writes:
> > Gregory Stark napsal(a):
> >> "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> >>
> >>> How about hacking together a simple patch tracker instead, as
> >>> Bruce suggested? I've never found e-mail to be a particularly
> >>> good way to track patches.
> >>
> >> The thing is that we don't just want to "track" patches. We want
> >> to talk about patches.
> >
> > I think we want to have both. If you have big patch you don't want
> > go through all patch again and again when new version is released
> > with only few changes. If you are able to have diff between two
> > patch versions you are able preform easy check if all comments are
> > already fixed.
>
> Ah, that's not something a patch tracker or a mailing list would
> solve. There is a tool that would solve this -- a revision control
> system.

There's already an official git repository, and it plays nicely with
the official CVS it sits on top of :)

http://git.postgresql.org/

Cheers,
David.
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