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Re: git: uh-oh

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

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From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>, Max Bowsher <maxb@f2s.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-09-06T13:52:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 15:37, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 06:09, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> If we can set it to a value different from any actual committer name,
>>> that would be a good thing to do.
>
>> I intentionally picked the "pgsql" user because AFAIK that's what
>> we've been previously using for "commits that aren't commits".
>
> Uh, no, not so.  Marc used to use that ID for commits related to
> pushing new versions.  It's been retired, but there's nothing un-real
> about the commits under that ID.  Please pick something else.  I thought
> the suggestion of cvs2git was a good one.

Ok, I'll switch to that - no problem. Should the name really be
"PostgreSQL Daemon" then? (Because that's what it's called on the cvs
box, but that's probably just a coincidence)


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