Re: PostgreSQL Developer meeting minutes up

On 6/2/09, Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch> wrote:
> [academic nitpicking]

Sorry, not going there. Just look at the state of VCS systems
that have prioritized academic issues insead of practicality...
(arch/darcs/monotone/etc..)

> > So please turn the merge logic off. If this cannot be turned off,
> > cvs2git is not usable for conversion.
> >
>
> As far as I know, it cannot be turned off. Use parsecvs if you want to get
> silly side effects later on in history. ;-)

--no-cross-branch-commits seems sort of that direction?

And what silly side effects are you talking about? I see only cvs2git
doing silly things...

(I'm talking about only in context of Postgres CVS repo, not in general.)

> > Seems it contains more complex logic to handle more complex CVS usage
> > cases, but seems like overkill for us if it creates a mess of history.
> >
>
> You consider it a mess, I consider it a better and more valid
> representation of the mess that CVS is.

Note that merge is no file-level but tree level. Also note we don't
use branches for feature developement but for major version maintenance.

So how can single file appearing in 2 branches means merge of 2 trees?
How can that be valid?

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marko