Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

On 2020-Aug-13, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> That is:
> 1. Whenever a patch is pushed on master on the main repo a process kicked
> off (or maybe wait 5 minutes to coalesce multiple patches if there are)
> 2. This process checks out master, and runs pgindent on it
> 3. When done, this gets committed to a new branch (or just overwrites an
> existing branch of course, we don't need to maintain history here) like
> "master-indented". This branch can be in a different repo, but one that
> starts out as a clone of the main one
> 4. A committer (any committer) can then on regular basis examine the
> differences by fetch + diff. If they're happy with it, cherry pick it in.
> If not, figure out what needs to be done to adjust it.

Sounds good -- for branch master.

Yesterday I tried to indent some patch across all branches, only to
discover that I'm lacking the pg_bsd_indent necessary for the older
ones. I already have two, but apparently I'd need *four* different
versions with current branches (1.3, 2.0, 2.1, 2.1.1)

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