From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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To: | Michael Haggerty <mhagger(at)alum(dot)mit(dot)edu> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Max Bowsher <maxb(at)f2s(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: git: uh-oh |
Date: | 2010-09-06 20:23:57 |
Message-ID: | 20100906202357.GB1431@fetter.org |
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On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 05:41:06AM +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Michael Haggerty <mhagger(at)alum(dot)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> >> CVS does not record when a branch was created or by whom. If a
> >> git commit has to be created for such events, cvs2git attributes
> >> them to a configurable username, which Max has set to be "pgsql".
> >> It chooses the latest possible timestamp that is consistent with
> >> other (timestamped) changesets that depend on it.
> >
> >> Does cvs2cl do something better? If so, how?
> >
> > I suspect what it's doing is attributing the branch creation to
> > the user who makes the first commit on the branch for that file.
> > In general I'd expect that to give a reasonable result --- better
> > than choosing a guaranteed-to-be-wrong constant value anyway ;-)
>
> On the contrary, I prefer an obvious indication of "I don't know"
Surely you jest! Databases have no possible way of recording
ignorance (other than NULL, that is ;)
Cheers,
David.
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