Re: git: uh-oh
Max Bowsher <maxb@f2s.com>
From: Max Bowsher <maxb@f2s.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-09-07T16:47:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 07/09/10 16:47, Tom Lane wrote: > Max Bowsher <maxb@f2s.com> writes: >> Personally, the idea of trying to use git-filter-branch to make what >> cvs2git currently gives you more sensible scares me silly. > > I'm not excited about it either --- but if Magnus wants to experiment, > no harm trying. > >> Another glitch that might be worth fixing before you convert is the way >> that cvs2git says "This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create >> branch", when it actually means "manufactured to incrementally create >> the branch state as it appears in CVS" - i.e. many of these commits >> actually update an existing branch. Just as soon as I can figure out how >> to cleanly fit that into cvs2git's structure, I want it to change the >> word "create" to "update" in most of those commits. > > I thought all of those message texts were taken from the configuration > file. Yes, but currently these two cases both reference the same entry in the configuration file. Max.