Re: cleanup: Split long Makefile lists across lines and sort them

From: Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>
Cc: zengman <zengman(at)halodbtech(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: cleanup: Split long Makefile lists across lines and sort them
Date: 2025-12-25 09:37:10
Message-ID: D76501ED-13BD-433D-9C8A-4469A433B2FD@gmail.com
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> On Dec 25, 2025, at 17:07, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl> wrote:
>
> On Wed Dec 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM CET, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
>> Oops. Fixed in attached.
>
> I had accidentally included a trailing backspace in one of the lists. To
> my surprise that worked fine. Since these trailing separators result in
> smaller git diffs when a new item is added at the end of the list, I
> decided to put such trailing backslashes in all the lists in this patch.
> <v3-0001-cleanup-Split-long-Makefile-lists-across-lines-an.patch>

```
+REGRESS = \
+ page \
+ brin \
+ btree \
+ checksum \
+ gin \
+ gist \
+ hash \
+ oldextversions \
```

If we look at existing Makefiles, they don’t add a tailing “\” in the last line of lists, so let’s keep consistent.

Best regards,
--
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/

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