Re: Report: removing the inconsistencies in our CVS->git conversion

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 23:01, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> BTW, on the cleanup steps:
>
> # Remove bogus branches
> git branch -D unlabeled-1.44.2
> git branch -D unlabeled-1.51.2
> git branch -D unlabeled-1.59.2
> git branch -D unlabeled-1.87.2
> git branch -D unlabeled-1.90.2
>
> You should not need any of the above; I don't see those being generated
> anymore with the cleanup script in place.

I see them - at least the script didn't give an error when it ran, but
said it had deleted them.

> git branch -D ecpg_big_bison
>
> I don't agree with removing this.  It is a legitimate part of the
> project history.  Yeah, it was a workaround, but we've had workarounds
> in place for other broken software.

Ok. I was just going by Michaels email - I'll leave it in then.


> # Remove broken tags
> git tag -d SUPPORT
> git tag -d MANUAL_1_0
> git tag -d Release-1-6-0
>
> Also get rid of the "creation" tag, please.  Also, just for the record,
> these aren't really broken.  Maybe "Remove unwanted partial tags"?

Right. I didn't really pay much attention to the comments, since it's
just a temporary thing.
"creation" added to the list.


> In addition to the above, we're going to want to clean up the
> Release_2_0_0 and Release_2_0 tags, but I'm not sure if there's
> a reasonable way to script those when the commit SHA1's aren't frozen
> yet.  I can give you timestamps for the commits they should point at,
> but I lack the git-fu to convert that into a git tag command.

yeah, that's definitely easier to do after the fact.


> Similarly, we're going to want to repoint REL6_5, REL7_1, REL7_1_2
> tags at more appropriate places, but right now all I have for those is
> timestamps.  (I've also identified places to tag the other early
> releases, but those tags can certainly be added later.)

I like your downthread suggestion of removing them, and then putting
them back in manually later. I'll add them all to the delete list.

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