Re: Several tags around PostgreSQL 7.1 broken - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Several tags around PostgreSQL 7.1 broken
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Msg-id 20080402163324.GG29172@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Several tags around PostgreSQL 7.1 broken  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Several tags around PostgreSQL 7.1 broken  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Several tags around PostgreSQL 7.1 broken  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb Marc G. Fournier:
> > Agreed ... but, stupid question here ... if our tags are wrong in CVS, are
> > the 7.1.x releases themselves wrong too?  When I do a release tarball, I
> > run:
> >
> > cvs -q export -rREL7_1_1 pgsql
> 
> I believe we moved to using cvs export many years after 7.1.  Before that, the 
> releases were made straight out of a cvs checkout.  With cvs export it is of 
> course nearly impossible to create such a mess.

Hmm, if we use a CVS export, why do we have, on "make distdir", the
business to remove CVS files?

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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