Re: [HACKERS] Hacking on PostgreSQL via GIT

2007-04-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
Jim C. Nasby wrote: > Not bad... took you 40 lines to answer my question. Let's see if I can > beat that... Sure - it'll be 1 line when it's wrapped in a shell script. And then we'll be even. > I understand the argument about metadata and all, and largely agree with > it. But on the other hand I

Re: [HACKERS] Hacking on PostgreSQL via GIT

2007-04-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
Jim C. Nasby wrote: > Then how do you tell what version a file is if it's outside of a > checkout? It's trivial for git to answer that - the file will either be pristine, and then we can just scan for the matching SHA1, or modified, and we can scan (taking a weee bit more time) which are the "clos

Re: [HACKERS] Hacking on PostgreSQL via GIT

2007-04-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
Tom Lane wrote: > Um ... why do either of you feel there's an issue there? > > We switched over to $PostgreSQL$ a few years ago specifically to avoid > creating merge problems for downstream repositories. If there are any > other keyword expansions left in the source text I'd vote to remove > the

Re: [HACKERS] Hacking on PostgreSQL via GIT

2007-04-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
Aidan Van Dyk wrote: > I'm an unknown here, I know - I've used PostgreSQL for years, but only > recently started following the development community... And at this I'm probably unknown here as well. Hi everyone ;-) > And remember the warning I gave that my conversion is *not* a direct CVS > impo

Re: [HACKERS] Hacking on PostgreSQL via GIT

2007-04-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
Florian G. Pflug wrote: > Cool - I'm new to git, so I really appreciate any help that I can get. Great - I am a SoC mentor for 2 other projects (git and moodle) so I've got some time set aside for SoC stuff. You might as well take advantage of it :-) >> For the kind of work you'll be doing (writi

Re: [HACKERS] Hacking on PostgreSQL via GIT

2007-04-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
Florian G. Pflug wrote: >> Initially, I'll post it on http://git.catalyst.net.nz/ and I can run a >> daily import for you - once that's in place you can probably get a repo >> with your work on http://repo.or.cz/ Ok - you can now clone from http://git.catalyst.net.nz/postgresql.git viewable from h

[HACKERS] Hacking on PostgreSQL via GIT

2007-04-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Florian, I am right now running an rsync of the Pg CVS repo to my work machine to get a git import underway. I'm rather keen on seeing your cool PITR Pg project go well and I have some git+cvs fu I can apply here (being one of the git-cvsimport maintainers) ;-) For the kind of work you'll be d