Re: Git out of sync vs. CVS

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

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

To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, peter_e <peter_e@gmx.net>

Date: 2010-01-21T14:54:47Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 21:07, Kevin Grittner
>> Reality check: does the frequency of lost CVS commits within git
>> seem consistent with this theory?

> Well, supposedly all our servers are synced with NTP. I know the main
> cvs server is, and the git server is, but it goes past the anoncvs
> server which is a hub.org server so I don't know for sure there - but
> I think it is? So I don't think it's the machines-out-of-sync issue.
> Or at least the window for that is *really* small.

I have noticed that CVS operations (at least from the user's viewpoint)
work in local time.  So even if the clocks are synced, a different TZ
setting could conceivably lead to issues.

			regards, tom lane