Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca> wrote:
>
>> All that based on the assumption that when the project switches to git,
>> they actually want all the CVS history in their official tree. Its
>> certainly not necessary, and possibly not even desirable... PostgreSQL
>> could just as easily to a "linus" style switch when they switch to git,
>> and just "import" the latest release in each branch as the starting
>> point for each branch. The git repository will have no history, and
>> people can choose which history they want to graft in... CVSROOT can be
>> made available as a historical download.
>>
>
> That would suck for me. I use git log a lot to see how things have
> changed over time.
>
>
>
Indeed. Losing the history is not an acceptable option.
cheers
andrew
