Re: Git out of sync vs. CVS - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Git out of sync vs. CVS
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Msg-id 11345.1263764559@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Git out of sync vs. CVS  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: Git out of sync vs. CVS  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> 2010/1/17 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>:
>> Maybe I'm hallucinating and someone could check this in their
>> environment, but it appears to me that the Git repository is missing
>> parts of two non-recent commits. �See attached patch.

> Not having looked at the repo in detail, but I bet this happened
> because the git mirror grabbed it's snapshot in the middle of a cvs
> commit with multiple files. Since cvs doesn't have atomic commits, I
> think that kind of thing can happen.

That would explain a single CVS commit appearing as two separate commits
in the git history; but it hardly seems like an acceptable excuse for
missing changes altogether, which is what I think Peter said he saw.
        regards, tom lane


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