Tom Lane wrote:
> Problem:
> cvs-to-git mirror is buggy
>
> Proposed solution:
> install git and git-to-cvs emulator
>
> We should assume this will be less buggy?
Well, actually yes -- the git-to-cvs mechanism is integrated in Git,
whereas the cvs-to-git mirror is a rather unsupported hack.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-cvsserver.html
Something you will definitively not like about Git is that we will lose
the $PostgreSQL$ expansion stuff -- and there's no equivalent
functionality AFAIK.
> Oh, and the first case is not project-critical infrastructure but the
> second will be.
Git has been used by the Linux developers long enough that it's easy to
have confidence that it will serve us fine.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
