On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 05:50:19PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: >>>> 2. Start using more git, as many hackers and committers have >>>> already started to do. This is the kind of situation where CVS >>>> just plain falls down because branching and merging are >>>> unmanageably difficult in it, where in git, they're >>>> many-times-a-day operations. >>> >>> This is a red herring, unless your proposal also includes making >>> the master CVS^H^H^Hgit repository world-writable. The complaint >>> I have about people posting URLs is that there's no stable archive >>> of what the patches really were, and just because it came out of >>> someone's local git repository doesn't help that. >> >> The master repository need not be world-writeable, but as many >> public ones as needed for development should be. I'd love for >> people to use our infrastructure, but github, etc., would also >> work. > > As much as I'm starting to join the "let's move the main repo to > git" crowd, all you need for what you're suggesting here is a > stable git mirror on git.postgresql.org.
Agreed :) Cheers, David (happy to help by setting people up on git.postgresql.org). -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
