Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 01:15:20PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> FWIW, I favor the approach of having an in-tree, per-branch file
>> containing the commit hash of a commit that is the current ABI
>> reference for that branch.
> I'm new to the topic, but IMHO the per-branch file approach is by far the
> best approach. Not only is it much more flexible, but we could even use it
> as a centralized list of ABI breaks for a given branch with justification
> for each. I can't think of any strong advantages of keeping this stuff in
> git metadata. git itself uses a file for blame.ignoreRevsFile...
Good idea. We'd have to allow comments in the file, but that's
probably a good thing anyway.
regards, tom lane