Re: annoyance with .git-blame-ignore-revs

> On 11 Jul 2022, at 21:35, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
>> A viable option would be to backpatch the addition of
>> .git-blame-ignore-revs to all live branches. Would that bother anyone?
>
> Only if we had to update all those copies all the time. But
> I'm guessing we wouldn't need a branch's copy to be newer than
> the last pgindent run affecting that branch?

We shouldn't need that, if we do it would indicate we did cosmetic-only commits
in backbranches which IIUC isn't in line with project policy (or at least rare
to the point of not being a problem).

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