Re: pgsql: Update copyright for 2017

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:05:10AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > On 2017-01-03 13:02:28 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> Yeah, I was doing parallel pulls of different branches in git via shell
> >> script, and it seems the size of this commit showed me that doesn't
> >> work. Sorry.
>
> > Shouldn't you check the results of something like this before pushing?
> > Sorry for piling on, but that seems like a quite critical step.
>
> Actually, my takeaway from this was "don't ever use git reset on the repo".
> "git revert" would have been much safer. Yeah, it would have meant that
> git blame on the 9.2 branch would have some useless noise, but how much
> does anyone still care about that?

FYI, my takeaway is that you can't run parallel 'git pull' operations on
different branches checked out of the same tree, at least as setup from
instructions on our wiki. Such parallel operations generate messages
indicating someone else is working on the tree, but I now realize those
are _warnings_ and this behavior should be avoided. Normally it works
fine, but for a big commit, it can move a changeset from one branch to
another, with disastrous consequences.

Yes, I should have checked more, but I often do a pull before a push as
another check, so that can mess it up too. Basically, if your tools are
being used improperly, checking can make things worse too.

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