Re: pgsql: git_topo_order script, to match up commits across branches. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: pgsql: git_topo_order script, to match up commits across branches.
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Msg-id 2F98B6AB-9D32-4743-A586-22739C69FA61@gmail.com
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In response to Re: pgsql: git_topo_order script, to match up commits across branches.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sep 24, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org> writes:
>> git_topo_order script, to match up commits across branches.
>> This script is intended to substitute for cvs2cl in generating release
>> notes and scrutinizing what got back-patched to which branches.
>
> BTW ... I don't especially care for the name you picked for this script.
> The fact that it does a topological sort is an implementation detail
> that its users couldn't care less about, especially since that doesn't
> matter except for corner cases.  How about "collate_git_log" or
> something along it.

I don't think that's any better - collate could mean anything - but I don't think it's any worse, either.  Change it if
youwant. 

...Robert

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