On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 05:41:06AM +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Michael Haggerty <mhag...@alum.mit.edu> writes: > >> CVS does not record when a branch was created or by whom. If a > >> git commit has to be created for such events, cvs2git attributes > >> them to a configurable username, which Max has set to be "pgsql". > >> It chooses the latest possible timestamp that is consistent with > >> other (timestamped) changesets that depend on it. > > > >> Does cvs2cl do something better? If so, how? > > > > I suspect what it's doing is attributing the branch creation to > > the user who makes the first commit on the branch for that file. > > In general I'd expect that to give a reasonable result --- better > > than choosing a guaranteed-to-be-wrong constant value anyway ;-) > > On the contrary, I prefer an obvious indication of "I don't know"
Surely you jest! Databases have no possible way of recording ignorance (other than NULL, that is ;) Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics 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
