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Re: git: uh-oh

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Max Bowsher <maxb@f2s.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-08-20T20:27:22Z
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Max Bowsher <maxb@f2s.com> writes:
> On 20/08/10 21:08, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm still confused as to why this results in such massive weirdness in
>> the generated git history, though.  If it simply caused an extra commit
>> that adds the new file slightly earlier than the commit we think of as
>> adding the file, I wouldn't be complaining.

> Isn't this what's happening?

Uh, no, the excitement is about this:
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql-migration.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/REL8_3_10

There are a whole lot of commits listed there that have nothing to do
with anything that ever happened on the 8.3 branch.

			regards, tom lane