Re: pgindent run?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgindent run?
Date: 2001-03-22 17:54:11
Message-ID: 200103221754.MAA05473@candle.pha.pa.us
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> * Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> [010322 07:12] wrote:
> > > It seems that you guys are dead set on using this pgindent tool,
> > > this is cool, we'd probably use some indentation tool on the FreeBSD
> > > sources if there was one that met our code style(9) guidelines.
> >
> > I would liken running pgindent to having a nice looking store or
> > website. No one is going to go to a website or a store only because it
> > looks nice, but having it look nice does keep people coming back.
>
> I'm not saying I don't like pgindent, I'm saying I don't like
> pgindent's effect on the CVS history.

How do we get around this problem?

Also, I now remember that the problem with CVS auto-pgindenting, as Tom
mentioned, is that once you cvs commit, you would have to cvs update
again because your source tree wouldn't match cvs anymore.

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