Re: Bootstrap DATA is a pita

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> Is it necessarily an all or nothing deal?
>
> Taking a previous example, we could have something like:
>
> {
> oid => 2249, oiddefine => 'CSTRINGOID', typname => 'cstring',
> typlen => -2, typbyval => 1,
> ...
> }
>
> which would allow us to fit within a reasonable edit window (for my normal
> window and font that's around 180 characters) and still reduce the number of
> lines.
>
> I'm not wedded to it, but it's a thought.

Another advantage of this is that it would probably make git less
likely to fumble a rebase. If there are lots of places in the file
where we have the same 10 lines in a row with occasional variations,
rebasing a patch could easily pick the the wrong place to reapply the
hunk. I would personally consider a substantial increase in the rate
of such occurrences as being a cure far, far worse than the disease.
If you keep the entry for each function on just a couple of lines the
chances of this happening are greatly reduced, because you're much
likely to get a false match to surrounding context.

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