Re: moving from contrib to bin

On 2014-12-12 11:42:57 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > I think the amount of effort a simple renamed directory which wholly
> > contains a binary creates is acceptable. Just use patch -p4 instead of
> > patch -p1...
> 
> That is fine if you are manually applying a patch that touches only
> that directory, but if the patch also touches other stuff then it's
> not as simple.

I think backpatchable commits that touch individual binaries and other
code at the same time are (and ought to be!) pretty rare.

> And I don't know how well git cherry-pick will follow
> the moves.

Not well if the patch is done in master first.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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