Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Jelte Fennema <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Jesse Zhang <sbjesse(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner
Date: 2023-02-06 21:36:07
Message-ID: 2828975.1675719367@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2023-02-06 18:17:02 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> First, as a matter of principle, it would introduce another level of
>> gatekeeping power. Right now, the committers are as a group in charge of
>> what gets into the tree. Adding commit hooks that are installed
>> somewhere(?) by someone(?) and can only be seen by some(?) would upset that.
>> If we were using something like github or gitlab (not suggesting that, but
>> for illustration), then you could put this kind of thing under .github/ or
>> similar and then it would be under the same control as the source code
>> itself.

> Well, we did talk about adding a pre-commit hook to the repository, with
> instructions for how to enable it. And I don't see a problem with adding the
> pre-receive we're discussing here to src/tools/something.

Yeah. I don't think we are seriously considering putting any restrictions
in place on gitmaster --- the idea is to offer better tools to committers
to let them check/fix the indentation of what they are working on. If
somebody wants to run that as a local pre-commit hook, that's their choice.

regards, tom lane

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