On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 18:32, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It would result in a massive merge commit and the duplication of
>> the entire history.
>
> Ah, well, if the two repositories don't share the same IDs, it a
> clear no-go. Now that I think about it, it would be a bit much to
> expect those to match on independent conversions from CVS.
>
> How is this going to play out when we do the "official" conversion
> to git? Will those of us on repositories based off of
> git.postgresql.org be faced with similar issues, or are we using the
> repo there as the base for the conversion?
No, it will be a completely new repository. Those with the old one
will need to extract a patch from that and then apply it to the new
one.
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