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Re: Add .gitignore files to CVS?

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Cc: 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: 2010-01-09T04:08:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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.

			regards, tom lane