Re: PostgreSQL 8.4 development plan

* Florian Pflug <fgp.phlo.org@gmail.com> [080208 09:25]:
> Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> >The Git repo certainly is an "incremental" update.
> >
> >If you ever see a "rewind" (non-fastforward) of the the repo.or.cz
> >PostgreSQL repo, please let me know...
> 
> Hm... interesting...
> 
> I'm pretty sure that the "past" changed at least once - at least I once 
> got loud complaints from git about being unable to merge because there 
> is no common anchestor, or something like that.

Very strange - I don't recall it rewinding ever for me.  In fact, I'm
pretty sure it *can't* rewind heads, because I *don't* push with -f.

> I seem the remember that I fixed that manually, and only switched to 
> using git-cherry when it happened again - but that memory could be wrong...

Wow, the following scheme seems like an awful workaround for what should
be a simple:
# fetch any remote CVS commitsgit fetch # defaults to origin, use whatever remote you prefer
# And now let's try and rebase my changes onto CVS HEADgit rebase origin/master # again - use whatever remote/branch
youwant.     <edit and fix conflicts/problems>     git commit && git rebase --continue    
 

> For reference, here is the script I use for fetching changesets ATM
> --------------------------
> #Checkout pgsql-head.
> git-checkout pgsql-head 2>&1 || exit 1
> 
> #Pull the latest changesets
> git-fetch pgsql-upstream-git 2>&1 || exit 1
> 
> #Now find all unapplied commits from upstream,
> #and commit them
> set -o pipefail
> nice git-cherry \
>                 pgsql-head \
>                 pgsql-upstream-git/master \
>                 pgsql-upstream-git-lastmerged \
>         | sed -n 's/^\+ \([A-Fa-f0-9][A-Fa-f0-9]*\)$/\1/p' \
>         | xargs -n1 --no-run-if-empty \
>                 git-cherry-pick \
>                 2>&1 \
>         || exit 1
> 
> #Now, update pgsql-upstream-git-lastmerged
> git tag -f pgsql-upstream-git-lastmerged pgsql-upstream-git/master \
>         || exit 1
> --------------------------
> 
> regards, Florian Pflug

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