Re: mkid reference

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-01-25T15:38:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 01:07:36PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > 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

Yes, I do still use it, so I thought having a script to generate its
index files might be helpful to someone.

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Commits

  1. Remove make_diff set of tools