Re: git failures

On 01/03/2017 05:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> Recently a number of git failures have been seen like this:
>>      *** Please tell me who you are.
>> Notably on Debian/Ubuntu machines. I assume they have had some sort of
>> recent git update.
> No, I do not think it's the fault of the buildfarm machines.  The problem
> is that Magnus got rid of a bad commit into the 9.2 branch via "git reset"
> not "git revert", cf
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CABUevEzrD-BYtQOQ22navkoWquOC5TcqPcBS_iQ2cYqaK9_39g%40mail.gmail.com
>
> and these three machines seem to have been quick enough to see the
> intermediate state and get confused by it.  I'm not very sure why "git
> pull" isn't enough to recover, but it evidently isn't.


Yeah, axolotl just failed :-(

cheers

andrew

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