Re: [PATCH] cleanup hashindex for pg_migrator hashindex compat mode (for 8.4)

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:24:05PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:45:33AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> >> I'm all for moving to git, but not until at least the core folks are
> >> more familiar with it and have been using it.
> 
> > Which ones aren't familiar and haven't been using it for at least
> > the past year?  I count two.
> 
> I'm not familiar with it, and neither is Bruce, and frankly that's
> entirely sufficient reason not to change now.
> 
> What was more or less agreed to at the developer's meeting was that
> we would move towards git in an orderly fashion.

The rest have already been moving to it in "an orderly fashion," some
for over than a year.

> I'm thinking something like six months to a year before cutting over
> the core repository.

What would gate that?

> If you'd like to accomplish something *useful* about this, how about
> pestering git upstream to support diff -c output format?

I've been pestering them :)

Cheers,
David.
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