Re: Git conversion status

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> This is not even close to matching the tarballs :-(.  Seems to be a
> >> locale problem: the diffs look like
> >> 
> >> 1c1
> >> < /* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/citext/citext.sql.in,v 1.3 2008/09/05 18:25:16 tgl Exp $ */
> >> ---
> > /* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/citext/citext.sql.in,v 1.3 2008-09-05 18:25:16 tgl Exp $ */
> 
> > As a curiosity, I do prefer the dashed dates. I have had a number of
> > cases where I have to change dashes to slashes when passing ISO dates as
> > parameters to CVS.  Shame they improve it just as we are leaving CVS.
> 
> Yeah.  It appears that this was prompted by a desire to match ISO style
> going forward.  I wouldn't be against that necessarily if we were
> keeping the keywords and not getting rid of them.  But since we are
> going to get rid of them going forward, I think what we want this
> conversion to do is match what's in the historical tarballs.

Agreed, no question.

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