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Re: Maintaining a list of pgindent commits for "git blame" to ignore

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-03-18T23:00:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 03:46:10PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> It's worth noting that git insists that you provide the full hash of
> commits here. This is not something I remember it insisting upon in
> any other area. There is probably a very good practical reason for
> that.

Probably because later commits might collide with shorter hashes.  When
you are reporting a hash that only looks _backward_, this is not an
issue.

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Commits

  1. Add list of ignorable pgindent commits for git-blame.

  2. pgindent run prior to branching v13.