From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: mkid reference |
Date: | 2021-01-24 13:20:58 |
Message-ID: | CABUevEyCtbB3migDB59nEXFq0v9Rakx77UcSCYMOsp5RmtwYQA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 7:07 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
> >> On 22 Jan 2021, at 12:56, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> >> And maybe even more interestnig -- is there a point to this whole
> >> make_diff directory at all in these days of git? Or should we just
> >> remove it rather than try to fix it?
>
> > There's also src/tools/make_mkid which use this mkid tool. +1 for removing.
> > If anything, it seems better replaced by extended documentation on the existing
> > wiki article [0] on how to use "git format-patch".
>
> I found man pages for mkid online --- it's apparently a ctags-like
> code indexing tool, not something for patches. So maybe Bruce still
> uses it, or maybe not. But as long as we've also got make_ctags and
> make_etags in there, I don't have a problem with leaving make_mkid.
>
> make_diff, on the other hand, certainly looks like technology whose
> time has passed. I wonder about pgtest, too.
I'll go kill make_diff then -- quicker than fixing the docs of it.
As for pgtest, that one looks a bit interesting as well -- but it's
been patched on as late as 9.5 and in 2018, so it seems at least Bruce
uses it :)
While at it, what point is "codelines" adding?
--
Magnus Hagander
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