Re: git failures

Andrew, Tom,

Out of the office currently but will address as soon as I'm able to.

Thanks!

Stephen

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 17:21 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
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> > Recently a number of git failures have been seen like this:
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> > *** Please tell me who you are.
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> > Notably on Debian/Ubuntu machines. I assume they have had some sort of
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> > recent git update.
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> No, I do not think it's the fault of the buildfarm machines. The problem
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> is that Magnus got rid of a bad commit into the 9.2 branch via "git reset"
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> not "git revert", cf
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> /message-id/CABUevEzrD-BYtQOQ22navkoWquOC5TcqPcBS_iQ2cYqaK9_39g%40mail.gmail.com
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> and these three machines seem to have been quick enough to see the
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> intermediate state and get confused by it. I'm not very sure why "git
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> pull" isn't enough to recover, but it evidently isn't.
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> regards, tom lane
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