Re: [PATCH] Incremental sort (was: PoC: Partial sort)

On 2020-Mar-13, Tom Lane wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > ... You can specify a filelist to pgindent, also. What I do is super
> > low-tech: do a "git diff origin/master", copy the filelist, and then
> > ^V^E to paste that list into a command line to run pgindent (editing to
> > remove the change histogram and irrelevant files). I should automate
> > this ...
>
> Yeah. I tend to keep copies of the files I'm specifically hacking on
> in a separate work directory, and then I re-indent just that directory.
> But that's far from ideal as well. I wonder if it'd be worth teaching
> pgindent to have some option to indent only files that are already
> modified according to git?

A quick look at git-ls-files manpage suggests that this might work:

src/tools/pgindent/pgindent $(git ls-files --modified -- *.[ch])

If it's that easy, maybe it's not worth messing with pgindent ...

Also, I wonder if it would be better to modify our policies so that we
update typedefs.list more frequently. Some people include additions
with their commits, but it's far from SOP.

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