[moving this onto -hackers, where I think it belongs]
Tom Lane wrote:
> Huh? The buildfarm will only prove that HEAD of the active branches
> builds. What the concern was was whether we could correctly extract
> past states (particularly, but not solely, the tags corresponding to
> releases) from a converted git repository. The testing I had in mind
> was to check out various tags and diff that tree against actual release
> tarballs.
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It appears that our git repo is only picking up the branch tags (e.g.
REL8_0_STABLE) , not all the release tags (e.g. REL8_0_5) . That needs
to be fixed (if possible).
cheers
andrew
