Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Still more tweaking of git_changelog.

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Still more tweaking of git_changelog.

> Uhm, could you stop massively changing the behavior of this script
> with no discussion at all?

Uh, there was no discussion of the original behavior of the script
either.

> I happen to think that this is a
> distinctly bad idea.  It defeats one of the major use cases of the
> original script, which is being able to easily figure out which
> branches a certain commit is in.

Hm?  As far as I can tell, this fixes that not breaks it.  The problem
I was seeing was that commits would be attributed to a branch when in
fact they were made before the branch ever existed.

> If you want to have an option for
> this behavior, fine, but please do not presume that everyone wants the
> same thing as you (since that is evidently not the case) or that you
> are the only person who is using it (if that were so, it should be
> stored in your personal workspace, rather than our community
> repository).

I was under the impression that the purpose of the script was to replace
cvs2cl and do approximately what cvs2cl did.  If you have another
use-case then please explain what it is and why this change is bad
for it.
        regards, tom lane