Re: Time to put context diffs in the grave

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Time to put context diffs in the grave
Date: 2018-06-19 20:54:55
Message-ID: 20180619205455.gcis6bk5a665ona5@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2018-05-21 21:51:11 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> We haven't insisted on context diffs in years now, and one of my
> interlocutors has just turned handsprings trying to follow the advice at
> <https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Working_with_Git> to produce his first
> patch.
>
>
> Unless someone objects really violently I'm going to rip all that stuff out
> and let sanity prevail.

Could we please also change pg_regress' diff invocations? I find it
really painful to see differences in buildfarm output due to the
-C3. Locally I've long exported PG_REGRESS_DIFF_OPTS, but that doesn't
help on the BF.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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