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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: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, 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 <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-09T16:32:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> If/when we are moving the main repository, we should use the first
> one. Yes, this will invalidate all current git clones out there, but
> that's a one-time cost. Will there be issues? Possibly. But we're
> *never* going to get something that's *guaranteed* 100% safe, not when
> going from something like CVS...

Alvaro already mentioned the success criterion that we agreed to:
be able to pull all of the past release tags from the repository
and get something that matches the actual release tarballs (perhaps
with an exception for $PostgreSQL$ tags and such).  Surely the process
can be tested in advance.

			regards, tom lane