Re: git: uh-oh

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Max Bowsher <maxb(at)f2s(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Haggerty <mhagger(at)alum(dot)mit(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: git: uh-oh
Date: 2010-08-20 20:27:22
Message-ID: 26638.1282336042@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Max Bowsher <maxb(at)f2s(dot)com> writes:
> On 20/08/10 21:08, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm still confused as to why this results in such massive weirdness in
>> the generated git history, though. If it simply caused an extra commit
>> that adds the new file slightly earlier than the commit we think of as
>> adding the file, I wouldn't be complaining.

> Isn't this what's happening?

Uh, no, the excitement is about this:
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql-migration.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/REL8_3_10

There are a whole lot of commits listed there that have nothing to do
with anything that ever happened on the 8.3 branch.

regards, tom lane

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