Re: PostgreSQL Developer meeting minutes up

On Tue, 26 May 2009, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:

> * Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [090526 11:20]:
>> Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca> writes:
>>> This has been raised and ignored many times before on -hackers... The
>>> reason is because the tags in the CVS repository are "broken" (i.e they
>>> are such that it's impossible to actually create all the tags), so the
>>> git "cvsimport" tools that try to tags all croak on the PG CVS repository.
>>
>>> The tool which doesn't croak doesn't try and import all the tags, just
>>> the sticky "branch tags"...
>>
>>> Scripts to "fix" (actually, remove) the broken tags have also been
>>> posted, along with requests that if somebody is "mucking" with the
>>> actual repository, to make sure it's known about, and access is "denied"
>>> during the mucking period (access being any rsync/anoncvs/mirroring of
>>> the cvs root).
>>
>> Up to now I've always been of the opinion that fixing those tags wasn't
>> worth taking any risk for.  But if we are thinking of moving away from
>> CVS, then this clearly becomes one of the hurdles we have to jump on the
>> way.  Can you refresh our memory about which tags are problematic and
>> exactly what needs to be done about 'em?
>
> Specifically, it's 2 tags, and I just remove them:
>    REL7_1_BETA2
>    REL7_1_BETA3

So, you are suggesting:

cvs -q tag -d REL7_1_BETA2 .
cvs -q tag -d REL7_1_BETA3 .

correct?

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