Re: CVS corruption/mistagging? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: CVS corruption/mistagging?
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Msg-id BE37D31694747ABCBE6BA34D@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to Re: CVS corruption/mistagging?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: CVS corruption/mistagging?
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- --On Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:11:35 +0200 Peter Eisentraut 
<peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 15. August 2007 04:20 schrieb Tom Lane:
>> we should at least log such commands, and maybe disallow to anyone
>> except Marc's "pgsql" account.
>
> I don't think we should disallow it.  Or otherwise we might one day be stuck
> if we need to release while some specific person is on vacation.

This isn't a big issue ... note that the 'restriction'  is easy to remove ... 
you checkout CVSROOT, modify taginfo and comment out the ALL l ine and check 
that in ...

What this will prevent is an 'accidental tagging' ... you would have to 
consciously remove the restriction .. but its something anyone could do ...

> I never understood why tagging uses a special account anyway.  It should be
> done as the person doing the tagging.

Agreed, I'm going to start doing it as myself from now on ... I'm not even 100% 
certain *why* I started doing it as pgsql in the first place ...


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