On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 04:43:27PM -0400, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: > * David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080709 14:45]: > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:28:34PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > > In fact, I fail to see the point of you providing the repo if > > > the upstream guys are apparently not using it ... > > > > It's *very* early days to be dismissing git entirely. We don't > > have auths fixed up yet, and I contend that that's because the > > people who have sudo on the git machine are unwilling to create > > git-shell accounts for people who need them. > > I don't think that was intended to dismiss git entirely, but only > question what the point of this particular git repo/branch is for: > http://git.postgresql.org/?p=~davidfetter/postgresql/.git;a=shortlog;h=with_recursive > > Is it just to provide an alternative way to fetch the patch? I > would have thought that anybody who can compile PostgreSQL from > source can apply a patch (if the patch available and applies > cleanly). > > The with_recursive branch doesn't seem to provide any of the nice > goodies that git could provide (i.e. patch history, merge > corresponding to various versions so you can easily see what > changed, etc)
I'm really new to this git thing, but I now have access to create git-shell accounts, etc. on git.postgresql.org. Any ideas you can offer on how better to handle this would really help me. :) Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
