Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > I wonder whether it would help with this problem if we had a way to > locate the build products outside the tree, and maybe fix things up so > that you can make the build products go to a different location > depending on which branch you're on.
I'm beginning to seriously consider the idea that the git repository should think each branch is a separate directory subtree --- ie, completely abandon the notion that git is worth anything at all for managing multi-branch patches. If we have HEAD, REL8_3, etc as separate subtrees then we can easily have a single commit touching multiple branches in whatever way we want. The arguments that were put forward for switching to git all had to do with managing patches against HEAD. AFAIK hardly anyone but the core committers deals with back-patching at all, and so a structure like this isn't going to affect anyone else --- you'd just ignore the back-branch directory subtrees in your checkout. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers