Re: missing file in git repo

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> - we need to make sure that all the committers understand how to keep
>> the history the way we want it - i.e. linear, without merges, and
>> possibly even implement programmatic safeguards against doing anything
>> else

> That too will be part of my talk. I'm not sure how you would implement 
> such programmatic safeguards, though. We don't have such a huge 
> population of committers that we can't manage this by education, I think.

I agree that programmatic safeguards are probably overkill, as long as
we have some agreed-on, documented commit procedures.  We've survived
fine without any such backstops for CVS commits.
        regards, tom lane