Back-patch replacement of README.CVS with README.git.

In older branches, also git-ify the "make distdir" rule.

diff --git a/GNUmakefile.in b/GNUmakefile.in
index f7bcc6729caa5695359e8d74ae241d3cdb4a6930..3b67226afc0390b258fbd7c2850d9b1e851fd708 100644 (file)
--- a/GNUmakefile.in
+++ b/GNUmakefile.in
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ postgresql-test-$(VERSION).tar: distdir
 
 distdir:
    -rm -rf $(distdir)* $(dummy)
-   for x in `cd $(top_srcdir) && find . -name CVS -prune -o -print`; do \
+   for x in `cd $(top_srcdir) && find . \( -name CVS -prune \) -o \( -name .git -prune \) -o -print`; do \
      file=`expr X$$x : 'X\./\(.*\)'`; \
      if test -d "$(top_srcdir)/$$file" ; then \
        mkdir "$(distdir)/$$file" && chmod 777 "$(distdir)/$$file"; \
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ distdir:
    cp $(distdir)/doc/src/sgml/INSTALL $(distdir)/
    cp $(distdir)/doc/src/sgml/regress_README $(distdir)/src/test/regress/README
    $(MAKE) -C $(distdir) distclean
-   rm -f $(distdir)/README.CVS
+   rm -f $(distdir)/README.git
 
 distcheck: $(distdir).tar.gz
    -rm -rf $(dummy)

diff --git a/README.CVS b/README.git
similarity index 54%
rename from README.CVS
rename to README.git
index 37daaf6bc30ab3a26763fb0fb48b0c29b64e7430..83b9a8c5816b21ea3f8e6fdf9f8cf8f9b0a3d7f2 100644 (file)
--- a/README.CVS
+++ b/README.git
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 
 In a release or snapshot tarball of PostgreSQL, documentation files named
 INSTALL and HISTORY will appear in this directory.  However, these files are
-not stored in CVS and so will not be present if you are using a CVS checkout.
-If you are using CVS, you can view the most recent install instructions at:
+not stored in git and so will not be present if you are using a git checkout.
+If you are using git, you can view the most recent install instructions at:
    http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/installation.html
 and the current release notes at:
    http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/release.html
 
-Users compiling from CVS will also need compatible versions of Bison and
-Flex, as discussed in the install documentation.  Bison and Flex are not
+Users compiling from git will also need compatible versions of Bison, Flex,
+and Perl, as discussed in the install documentation.  These programs are not
 needed when using a tarball, since the files they are needed to build are
-already present in the tarball.
+already present in the tarball.  (On Windows, however, you need Perl anyway.)