Re: Add .gitignore files to CVS?

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-01-09T04:54:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane escribió:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:35:24PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Probably eventually we'll be on git and this will be moot, but that
> >> doesn't seem to be ready to happen.
> 
> > What still needs to happen on this?  Clearly this would be a post-8.5
> > (or whatever the new release number is) thing, but apart from that?
> 
> AFAIR, we still weren't convinced that we had a 100% conversion method
> (ie something that would preserve all the history) and there were still
> questions about how to work with multi-branch patches most effectively.
> I don't recall where the previous discussion died off exactly, but
> it definitely wasn't at the "we're ready to do it" stage.

Somebody did a pull of all the tags, and some of them were missing files
and failed to build.

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