On May 12, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Florian Pflug <f...@phlo.org> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I just tried to checkout REL9_0_BETA1 from my local clone of the GIT >> repository at git.postgresql.org and discovered that none of the tags from >> CVS seem to exist in there. For alpha1 to alpha1 each tag is accompanied by >> a corresponding brach, and those *do* exist on the GIT mirror. For beta1, >> however, no branch seems to exist, and hence there is no trace of it on the >> GIT mirror. >> >> Why is there a branch plus a tag for alphas, but only a tag for betas? I'd >> have assumed that both would just be tags, but obviously I'm missing >> something there... > > I think we branched the alphas so we could version-stamp them while > keeping HEAD as "9.0devel". But when we switch to beta, we don't have > a devel tree anymore, it's just beta and backbranches.
Is there anything to do about the missing tags in git? I've wished for those to be available as well. Regards, David -- David Christensen End Point Corporation da...@endpoint.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
