Re: Add .gitignore files to CVS?

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> If/when we are moving the main repository, we should use the first
> one. Yes, this will invalidate all current git clones out there, but
> that's a one-time cost. Will there be issues? Possibly. But we're
> *never* going to get something that's *guaranteed* 100% safe, not when
> going from something like CVS...

Alvaro already mentioned the success criterion that we agreed to:
be able to pull all of the past release tags from the repository
and get something that matches the actual release tarballs (perhaps
with an exception for $PostgreSQL$ tags and such).  Surely the process
can be tested in advance.
        regards, tom lane