Re: gitweb is no longer a real-time view

On 2013-03-04 10:09:10 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On 2013-03-04 09:40:38 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> FWIW, I noticed something about a "forced update" when I did a git pull
> >> after Kevin's commits.  I failed to pay enough attention though.  Now
> >> that I look, the xml fix is not in my local history either, and I don't
> >> know what bc61878682051678ade5f59da7bfd90ab72ce13b is because none of
> >> the recent commits have that hash according to my repo:
> 
> > That is/was your map_sql_value_to_xml_value() commit which is now not in
> > the normal history anymore because kevin pushed a HEAD that didn't
> > include it.  You should be able to see it with git show
> > bc61878682051678ade5f59da7bfd90ab72ce13b
> 
> Ah, right, so it is still there but it's not in the chain leading to
> HEAD.  So "forced update" really means "I moved HEAD in a non fast
> forward way"?

Exactly. And normally you need to specify --force for that except in
Kevin's setup the mirror mode used (and described in the wiki) also
includes that...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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