Re: Recovery Test Framework

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 05:50:19PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>> 2. Start using more git, as many hackers and committers have
>>>> already started to do. This is the kind of situation where CVS
>>>> just plain falls down because branching and merging are
>>>> unmanageably difficult in it, where in git, they're
>>>> many-times-a-day operations.
>>>
>>> This is a red herring, unless your proposal also includes making
>>> the master CVS^H^H^Hgit repository world-writable. The complaint
>>> I have about people posting URLs is that there's no stable archive
>>> of what the patches really were, and just because it came out of
>>> someone's local git repository doesn't help that.
>>
>> The master repository need not be world-writeable, but as many
>> public ones as needed for development should be. I'd love for
>> people to use our infrastructure, but github, etc., would also
>> work.
>
> As much as I'm starting to join the "let's move the main repo to
> git" crowd, all you need for what you're suggesting here is a
> stable git mirror on git.postgresql.org.

Agreed :)

Cheers,
David (happy to help by setting people up on git.postgresql.org).
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