On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 18:31, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> This is an attempt to sum up the open issues remaining before we can
> make another try at converting our source code to git.
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> * The REL8_0_0 branch needs to be downgraded to a tag, as previously
> discussed.
Yeah, and that's easily done.
> * There are several things we should do to make the manufactured commits
> less ugly, assuming we can't get rid of them entirely:
> ** Blame them on a nonexistent committer, probably "cvs2git" itself.
I've set the script onthe prod box up to blame it on cvs2git
<webmaster@postgresql.org>
(same email address as the pgsql user, but different name)
> ** If we do that, I'm inclined to also blame the inserted dead .0
> revisions on cvs2git. Right now I copied-and-pasted the committer info
> from the mainline commit they inherit from, which is not very relevant.
+1
> ** Make the manufactured-commit log messages say cvs2git not cvs2svn.
Done in my options file - it's just a couple of settings.
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