Re: [HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2010-05-12 at 16:11 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Of course, we might also find some other brokenness if we try to import all the tags. Also, be aware of this (from http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html): Differences between CVS and git branch/tag models: CVS allows a

Re: [HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-13 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Peter Eisentraut wrote: On ons, 2010-05-12 at 16:11 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Of course, we might also find some other brokenness if we try to import all the tags. Also, be aware of this (from http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html): Differences between CVS and git branch/tag

Re: [HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2010-05-13 at 04:41 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Right, and omitting tags was in fact one of the features of fromcvs that made us use it, because any tool that tries to convert tags will explode on our CVS tree, for reasons explained in the above paragraph. We have also discussed

Re: [HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-13 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Peter Eisentraut wrote: On tor, 2010-05-13 at 04:41 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Right, and omitting tags was in fact one of the features of fromcvs that made us use it, because any tool that tries to convert tags will explode on our CVS tree, for reasons explained in the above paragraph.

Re: [HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-12 Thread Magnus Hagander
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

Re: [HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-12 Thread David Christensen
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

Re: [HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-12 Thread Andrew Dunstan
David Christensen wrote: Is there anything to do about the missing tags in git? I've wished for those to be available as well. Sure, fix fromcvs to emit them. How is your ruby? cheers andrew -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to

Re: [HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-12 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 12, 2010, at 21:52 , Andrew Dunstan wrote: David Christensen wrote: Is there anything to do about the missing tags in git? I've wished for those to be available as well. Sure, fix fromcvs to emit them. How is your ruby? Where does one find the version of fromcvs used to feed

Re: [HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-12 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes: David Christensen wrote: Is there anything to do about the missing tags in git? I've wished for those to be available as well. Sure, fix fromcvs to emit them. How is your ruby? Per Magnus' comment, there isn't anything missing. We don't make

Re: [HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-12 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Florian Pflug wrote: On May 12, 2010, at 21:52 , Andrew Dunstan wrote: David Christensen wrote: Is there anything to do about the missing tags in git? I've wished for those to be available as well. Sure, fix fromcvs to emit them. How is your ruby? Where does one

Re: [HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-12 Thread Florian Pflug
On May 12, 2010, at 22:03 , Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes: David Christensen wrote: Is there anything to do about the missing tags in git? I've wished for those to be available as well. Sure, fix fromcvs to emit them. How is your ruby? Per Magnus' comment,

Re: [HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-12 Thread Tom Lane
Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org writes: Yeah, but CVS has tags for the alphas and betas. Those are missing from the GIT mirror as the CVS-to-GIT converter apparently ignores tags completely :-(. Since there are no branches for the betas, this leaves the GIT repository without any trace that

Re: [HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-12 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes: David Christensen wrote: Is there anything to do about the missing tags in git? I've wished for those to be available as well. Sure, fix fromcvs to emit them. How is your ruby? Per Magnus' comment,

Re: [HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-12 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org writes: Yeah, but CVS has tags for the alphas and betas. Those are missing from the GIT mirror as the CVS-to-GIT converter apparently ignores tags completely :-(. Since there are no branches for the betas, this leaves the GIT repository

Re: [HACKERS] Tags missing from GIT mirror?

2010-05-12 Thread Florian Pflug
On 12.05.2010, at 22:22, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Florian Pflug f...@phlo.org writes: Yeah, but CVS has tags for the alphas and betas. Those are missing from the GIT mirror as the CVS-to-GIT converter apparently ignores tags completely :-(. Since there are no branches for the