Re: [SPAM] Re: GIT mirror not updating

On Monday 29 December 2008 15:25:47 Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >>> So the procedure is to:
> >>>
> >>> 1. rsync PostgreSQL main repository.
> >>> 2. Remove offending tags:
> >>>
> >>> cvs -d ~/pgcvsrepository-hacked/ rtag -d REL7_1_BETA2 pgsql
> >>> cvs -d ~/pgcvsrepository-hacked/ rtag -d REL7_1_BETA3 pgsql
> >>> cvs -d ~/pgcvsrepository-hacked/ rtag -d REL7_1_BETA pgsql
> >>
> >> Can we permanently hack our repo?  It doesn't seem like those tags have
> >> a lot of value, after all.  (If somebody thinks they do, perhaps we can
> >> re-tag.)
> >
> > I don't know. It's not a big deal, either way.
>
> Or if we can figure out *what* is wrong with them, perhaps we can fix
> it? it is some level of historical information that we'd loose, after
> all. Granted not very important historical information, but if it's
> fixable there's no reason not to do that instead.

I analyzed this back in April; my analysis is in the archives.  The short 
version is that it is probably a bug in cvsps.

See also my message to hackers just now about a repository fixup that we *can* 
do.