Re: CVSROOT: remerge earthdistance back into pgql-server/contrib and move - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Sean Chittenden
Subject Re: CVSROOT: remerge earthdistance back into pgql-server/contrib and move
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Msg-id 33C1A73C-1BA6-11D9-91C8-000A95C705DC@speakeasy.net
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In response to Re: CVSROOT: remerge earthdistance back into pgql-server/contrib and move  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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>>> remerge earthdistance back into pgql-server/contrib and move
>>> pgsql-server to pgsql
>
>> Ugh, this is going to create a *HUGE* headache for many developers.
>
> If you had a problem with it, you should have spoken up earlier when
> it was being discussed.

I missed that discussion (limited bandwidth to read Pg mail, not
reading hackers@ as often as I should).  Apologies for the noise, it
just caught me by surprise with all of the conflicts I had this
morning.

>> I think a message to announce@ would be justified with some helpful
>> bits
>> of advice such as the following:
>
> I agree that it needs to be announced, but it would be sufficient to
> tell people to do a fresh checkout.  This business of sed'ing changes
> into your CVS/Repository files seems pretty error-prone to me.

It's only as hackish of a way to update a checked out repository as CVS
really is.  :)  -sc

--
Sean Chittenden


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