sploiselle / rust-postgres

Native PostgreSQL driver for the Rust programming language

Materialize fork of Rust-Postgres

This repo serves as a staging area in order to develop and use features of the rust postgtres client before they are accepted upstream.

Since development on this repo and the upstream one can happen in parallel this repo adops a branching strategy that keeps both in sync and keeps a tidy history. Importantly, the release branches are never forced-pushed so that older versions of materialize are always buildable.

Branching strategy

For every upstream release a local mz-{version} branch is created. The latest such branch should be made the default branch of this repo in the Github settings.

Whenever a PR is opened it should targed the current release branch (it should be picked automatically if its set as default on Github).

Whenever a new version is created upstream a new mz-{version} branch on this repo is created, initially pointing at the release commit of the upstream repo. Then, all the fork-specific work is rebased on top of it. This process gives the opportunity to prune PRs that have successfully made it to the upstream repo and keep a clean per-version history.