Re: [HACKERS] Old git repo

2010-12-31 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 13:10, Robert Haas  wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Magnus Hagander  wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 03:04, Tom Lane  wrote:
>>> Jeff Davis  writes:
 Personally, my utility for the old repo is not much (if it was anything
 important, I wouldn't have relied on the unofficial repo). But we should
 probably give a little bit of warning for folks that might want to
 rebase or translate some old notes.
>>>
>>> Well, I guess the question is how much warning.  I suggested O(1 week)
>>> but Robert seems to want O(1 year).  As long as there's some agreed
>>> deadline, I'm not very picky about what it is.
>>
>> I don't need to get rid of it *now*, but I agree a deadline is good.
>>
>> How about we either say "when 9.1 is released", or we say "september
>> 2011" because that's a year after we made the switch?
>
> Either of those would be fine with me.

Let's just decide it's "when 9.1 is released".

And I put it on you to remind me when the time comes ;)

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Re: [HACKERS] Old git repo

2010-12-31 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Magnus Hagander  wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 03:04, Tom Lane  wrote:
>> Jeff Davis  writes:
>>> Personally, my utility for the old repo is not much (if it was anything
>>> important, I wouldn't have relied on the unofficial repo). But we should
>>> probably give a little bit of warning for folks that might want to
>>> rebase or translate some old notes.
>>
>> Well, I guess the question is how much warning.  I suggested O(1 week)
>> but Robert seems to want O(1 year).  As long as there's some agreed
>> deadline, I'm not very picky about what it is.
>
> I don't need to get rid of it *now*, but I agree a deadline is good.
>
> How about we either say "when 9.1 is released", or we say "september
> 2011" because that's a year after we made the switch?

Either of those would be fine with me.

Thanks!

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Re: [HACKERS] Old git repo

2010-12-31 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 03:04, Tom Lane  wrote:
> Jeff Davis  writes:
>> Personally, my utility for the old repo is not much (if it was anything
>> important, I wouldn't have relied on the unofficial repo). But we should
>> probably give a little bit of warning for folks that might want to
>> rebase or translate some old notes.
>
> Well, I guess the question is how much warning.  I suggested O(1 week)
> but Robert seems to want O(1 year).  As long as there's some agreed
> deadline, I'm not very picky about what it is.

I don't need to get rid of it *now*, but I agree a deadline is good.

How about we either say "when 9.1 is released", or we say "september
2011" because that's a year after we made the switch?


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Re: [HACKERS] Old git repo

2010-12-30 Thread Tom Lane
Jeff Davis  writes:
> Personally, my utility for the old repo is not much (if it was anything
> important, I wouldn't have relied on the unofficial repo). But we should
> probably give a little bit of warning for folks that might want to
> rebase or translate some old notes.

Well, I guess the question is how much warning.  I suggested O(1 week)
but Robert seems to want O(1 year).  As long as there's some agreed
deadline, I'm not very picky about what it is.

regards, tom lane

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Re: [HACKERS] Old git repo

2010-12-30 Thread Jeff Davis
On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 11:02 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm with Magnus on this: the risk of confusion seems to greatly
> outweigh any possible benefit from keeping it.  There is no reason for
> anyone to use that old repo unless they are still working with a local
> clone of it, and even if they do have a local clone, such a clone is
> self-sufficient.

The reason I originally asked for it to be kept around was not because
it's hard to rebase, but because there might be references to SHA1s from
that repo floating around.

I don't think these would be very common, nor critical, but I know I
wrote a few emails that included things like "look at this commit".
Personally, my utility for the old repo is not much (if it was anything
important, I wouldn't have relied on the unofficial repo). But we should
probably give a little bit of warning for folks that might want to
rebase or translate some old notes.

Regards,
Jeff Davis


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Re: [HACKERS] Old git repo

2010-12-30 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Tom Lane  wrote:
> Robert Haas  writes:
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Magnus Hagander  wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 15:28, Robert Haas  wrote:
 I see no reason to drop that ever, or at least not any time soon.
 What is it costing us?
>
>>> Some disk space, so almost nothing. And the potential that people grab
>>> it by mistake - it adds a bit to confusion.
>
>> I realize it's not as "official" as the CVS repository was, but I
>> still think we ought to hold onto it for a year or two.  Maybe no one
>> will ever look at it again, but I'm not prepared to bet on that.
>
> I'm with Magnus on this: the risk of confusion seems to greatly
> outweigh any possible benefit from keeping it.  There is no reason for
> anyone to use that old repo unless they are still working with a local
> clone of it, and even if they do have a local clone, such a clone is
> self-sufficient.  And more to the point, it seems quite unlikely that
> anyone is still working with such a clone rather than having rebased
> by now.
>
> We should wait a week or so to see if anyone does pipe up and say they
> still use that repo; but in the absence of such feedback, it should go.

Well, I still have at least on repo against the old respository, which
is why I mentioned it.  Maybe there's nothing valuable in there and
maybe I don't need the origin anyway, but I haven't bothered to check
it over carefully yet because, well, there's no rush to clean up my
old repositories, and there is a rush to finish 9.1 development real
soon now.  I can, of course, carve out time to deal with it, but I
think that it's a poor use of time and that the risk of confusion that
you and Magnus are postulating is mostly hypothetical.

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Re: [HACKERS] Old git repo

2010-12-30 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas  writes:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Magnus Hagander  wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 15:28, Robert Haas  wrote:
>>> I see no reason to drop that ever, or at least not any time soon.
>>> What is it costing us?

>> Some disk space, so almost nothing. And the potential that people grab
>> it by mistake - it adds a bit to confusion.

> I realize it's not as "official" as the CVS repository was, but I
> still think we ought to hold onto it for a year or two.  Maybe no one
> will ever look at it again, but I'm not prepared to bet on that.

I'm with Magnus on this: the risk of confusion seems to greatly
outweigh any possible benefit from keeping it.  There is no reason for
anyone to use that old repo unless they are still working with a local
clone of it, and even if they do have a local clone, such a clone is
self-sufficient.  And more to the point, it seems quite unlikely that
anyone is still working with such a clone rather than having rebased
by now.

We should wait a week or so to see if anyone does pipe up and say they
still use that repo; but in the absence of such feedback, it should go.

regards, tom lane

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Re: [HACKERS] Old git repo

2010-12-30 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Magnus Hagander  wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 15:28, Robert Haas  wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Magnus Hagander  wrote:
>>> Are we ready to drop the old git mirror? The one that's still around
>>> (as postgresql-old.git) from before we migrated the main repository to
>>> git, and thus has the old hashes around.
>>
>> I see no reason to drop that ever, or at least not any time soon.
>> What is it costing us?
>
> Some disk space, so almost nothing. And the potential that people grab
> it by mistake - it adds a bit to confusion.

Well if it's clearly labeled "old" I don't think it should confuse
anyone much.  You could even tack one more commit on there adding a
README file with a big ol' warning.

> Looking at it from the other side, what's the use-case for keeping it?
> If you want to "diff" against it or something like that, you can just
> do that against your local clone (that you already had - if you
> didn't, you shouldn't be using it at all)...

I realize it's not as "official" as the CVS repository was, but I
still think we ought to hold onto it for a year or two.  Maybe no one
will ever look at it again, but I'm not prepared to bet on that.

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Re: [HACKERS] Old git repo

2010-12-30 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 15:28, Robert Haas  wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Magnus Hagander  wrote:
>> Are we ready to drop the old git mirror? The one that's still around
>> (as postgresql-old.git) from before we migrated the main repository to
>> git, and thus has the old hashes around.
>
> I see no reason to drop that ever, or at least not any time soon.
> What is it costing us?

Some disk space, so almost nothing. And the potential that people grab
it by mistake - it adds a bit to confusion.

Looking at it from the other side, what's the use-case for keeping it?
If you want to "diff" against it or something like that, you can just
do that against your local clone (that you already had - if you
didn't, you shouldn't be using it at all)...


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Re: [HACKERS] Old git repo

2010-12-30 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Magnus Hagander  wrote:
> Are we ready to drop the old git mirror? The one that's still around
> (as postgresql-old.git) from before we migrated the main repository to
> git, and thus has the old hashes around.

I see no reason to drop that ever, or at least not any time soon.
What is it costing us?

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[HACKERS] Old git repo

2010-12-30 Thread Magnus Hagander
Hi!

Are we ready to drop the old git mirror? The one that's still around
(as postgresql-old.git) from before we migrated the main repository to
git, and thus has the old hashes around.

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Re: [HACKERS] Old git repo

2010-08-19 Thread Jeff Davis
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 23:30 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> It might well be, and the cost is low. But if you're talking about
> gitweb links or so, they'll still be invalid, because it would have to
> be renamed to "postgresql-old" or something like that...

Sure, that's fine.

It would just be nice to have a place to turn to if you have an old SHA1
and no other information; even if it's slightly inconvenient.

Regards,
Jeff Davis



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Re: [HACKERS] Old git repo

2010-08-19 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Jeff Davis  wrote:
> The new git repository will have different SHA1s for all of the commits,
> so any old SHA1s will be useless without the old repository.
>
> Hopefully nobody used links to specific commits (or SHA1s) pointing to
> the old git repository for anything important. But I found myself doing
> so occasionally for unimportant things (if it was important, I included
> the date as a safeguard) -- so I assume a few other people did, as well.
>
> Would it be worth keeping the old git repository around in a read-only
> mode, just in case people have links/SHA1s floating around for it?

Perhaps 
"http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql-before-official-git-migration.git;a=summary";
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Re: [HACKERS] Old git repo

2010-08-19 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 23:29, Jeff Davis  wrote:
> The new git repository will have different SHA1s for all of the commits,
> so any old SHA1s will be useless without the old repository.
>
> Hopefully nobody used links to specific commits (or SHA1s) pointing to
> the old git repository for anything important. But I found myself doing
> so occasionally for unimportant things (if it was important, I included
> the date as a safeguard) -- so I assume a few other people did, as well.
>
> Would it be worth keeping the old git repository around in a read-only
> mode, just in case people have links/SHA1s floating around for it?

It might well be, and the cost is low. But if you're talking about
gitweb links or so, they'll still be invalid, because it would have to
be renamed to "postgresql-old" or something like that...

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[HACKERS] Old git repo

2010-08-19 Thread Jeff Davis
The new git repository will have different SHA1s for all of the commits,
so any old SHA1s will be useless without the old repository.

Hopefully nobody used links to specific commits (or SHA1s) pointing to
the old git repository for anything important. But I found myself doing
so occasionally for unimportant things (if it was important, I included
the date as a safeguard) -- so I assume a few other people did, as well.

Would it be worth keeping the old git repository around in a read-only
mode, just in case people have links/SHA1s floating around for it?

Regards,
Jeff Davis


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