Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

On 2023-01-24 Tu 11:43, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jelte Fennema <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl> writes:
>> Sounds like this conflict could be handled fairly easily by
>> having a local git hook rerunning pgindent whenever
>> you rebase a commit:
>> 1. if you changed typedefs.list the hook would format all files
>> 2. if you didn't it only formats the files that you changed
> I think that would be undesirable, because then reindentation noise
> in completely-unrelated files would get baked into feature commits,
> complicating review and messing up "git blame" history.
> The approach we currently have allows reindent effects to be
> separated into ignorable labeled commits, which is a nice property.
>
>> Merge failures are one issue. But personally the main benefit that
>> I would be getting is being able to run pgindent on the files
>> I'm editing and get this weird +12 columns formatting correct
>> without having to manually type it. Without pgindent also
>> changing random parts of the files that someone else touched
>> a few commits before me.
> Yeah, that always annoys me too, but I've always considered that
> it's my problem not something I can externalize onto other people.
> The real bottom line here is that AFAICT, there are fewer committers
> who care about indent cleanliness than committers who do not, so
> I do not think that the former group get to impose strict rules
> on the latter, much as I might wish otherwise.
>
> FWIW, Andrew's recent --show-diff feature for pgindent has
> already improved my workflow for that. I can do
> "pgindent --show-diff >fixindent.patch", manually remove any hunks
> in fixindent.patch that don't pertain to the code I'm working on,
> and apply what remains to fix up my new code. (I had been doing
> something basically like this, but with more file-copying steps
> to undo pgindent's edit-in-place behavior.)
>
>

I'm glad it's helpful.

Here's another improvement I think will be useful when the new gadgets
are used in a git hook: first, look for the excludes file under the
current directory if we aren't setting $code_base (e.g if we have files
given on the command line), and second apply the exclude patterns to the
command line files as well as to files found using File::Find.

I propose to apply this fairly soon.

cheers

andrew

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