Re: Problem in GIT mirror (was Re: pgsql: Fix all the server-side SIGQUIT handlers ...)

Tom Lane wrote:

> Problem:
>     cvs-to-git mirror is buggy
> 
> Proposed solution:
>     install git and git-to-cvs emulator
> 
> We should assume this will be less buggy?

Well, actually yes -- the git-to-cvs mechanism is integrated in Git,
whereas the cvs-to-git mirror is a rather unsupported hack.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-cvsserver.html

Something you will definitively not like about Git is that we will lose
the $PostgreSQL$ expansion stuff -- and there's no equivalent
functionality AFAIK.

> Oh, and the first case is not project-critical infrastructure but the
> second will be.

Git has been used by the Linux developers long enough that it's easy to
have confidence that it will serve us fine.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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