Re: Lessons from commit fest

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Lessons from commit fest
Date: 2008-04-16 22:48:04
Message-ID: 1970.1208386084@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Maybe this means that we should give pgindent a run over the back
>>> branches.
>>
>> Yea, that thought has crossed our minds, but the problem is that there
>> is little testing of back branches so it would be risky.

> That's a fair point, though I wonder how can a code indenter be so
> broken that it broke code in ways not detected by our buildfarm.

Yeah, the buildfarm has changed that equation a little.

I think that if we were going to do something like switch to GNU indent,
we'd really have to do that (re-indent the back branches) to maintain
our sanity. And again anytime we moved to a new release of indent.

regards, tom lane

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