Re: Problem in GIT mirror (was Re: pgsql: Fix all the server-side SIGQUIT handlers ...)

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:29:00AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> We should assume this will be less buggy?
> 
> > Well, actually yes -- the git-to-cvs mechanism is integrated in Git,
> > whereas the cvs-to-git mirror is a rather unsupported hack.
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-cvsserver.html
> 
> I quote from that page:
> 
> >>> It is highly functional. However, not all methods are
> >>> implemented, and for those methods that are implemented, not all
> >>> switches are implemented. 
> 
> >>> Testing has been done using both the CLI CVS client, and the
> >>> Eclipse CVS plugin. Most functionality works fine with both of
> >>> these clients. 
> 
> This is the project's *own* description of its level of
> completeness/reliability.  Warm fuzzy feelings it does not leave me
> with.
> 
> I'm prepared to believe that core git is reasonably well debugged by
> now, but I have little confidence in its ability to interact with
> cvs in either direction.  It doesn't look like upstream has put much
> work into getting the bugs out of that.  (There's no reason to think
> they would care much about it...)  If we make that transition I
> think it will have to be all-or-nothing.

+1 for all.  Right when we branch 8.5 would be great :)

> > Something you will definitively not like about Git is that we will
> > lose the $PostgreSQL$ expansion stuff -- and there's no equivalent
> > functionality AFAIK.
> 
> Well, that particular thing always struck me as something we did
> because we could, not because there was any important requirement
> for it.

What's it doing exactly?  Is there some way to get similar
functionality in git?

Cheers,
David.
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