Re: cvs to git migration - keywords

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> One point that isn't completely clear from Magnus' description is
> whether we should remove the $PostgreSQL$ lines from the HEAD branch
> only, or from the still-active back branches as well.  I vote for the
> latter --- that is, if you pull a historical version of some file
> from the archives, you should see the appropriate $PostgreSQL$ line,
> but we won't have them in the source files for any future minor
> release.  The reason for this is that otherwise there will be files
> floating around that claim to be CVS version x.y.z, but actually are
> different from that, because of back-patching activity after the git
> transition.  That seems like a recipe for huge confusion in itself.

Agreed. They should be removed from the active back branches.

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