Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> one of the most frequent conflicts I see is that two patches add files
> to OBJS (or one of its other spellings), and there are conflicts because
> another file has been added.
> ...
> Now, obviously these types of conflicts are easy enough to resolve, but
> it's still annoying. It seems that this would be substantially less
> often a problem if we just split such lines to one file per
> line.
We did something similar not too long ago in configure.in (bfa6c5a0c),
and it seems to have helped. +1
regards, tom lane