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Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Jesse Zhang <sbjesse@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-01-20T17:58:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On 2023-01-20 12:09:05 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl> writes:
> > To me a master branch that pgindent never complains about sounds
> > amazing! And I personally think rejection of unindented pushes and
> > cfbot complaining about unindented patches would be a very good thing,
> > because that seems to be the only solution that could achieve that.
> 
> The core problem here is that requiring that would translate to
> requiring every code contributor to have a working copy of pg_bsd_indent.

Wouldn't just every committer suffice?


> Maybe that's not a huge lift, but it'd be YA obstacle to new contributors,
> and we don't need any more of those.
> 
> Yeah, if we switched to some other tool maybe we could reduce the size
> of that problem.  But as Bruce replied, we've not found another one that
> (a) can be coaxed to make output comparable to what we're accustomed to
> and (b) seems decently well maintained.

One question around this is how much change we'd accept. clang-format for
example is well maintained and can get somewhat close to our style - but
there are things that can't easily be approximated.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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  1. Fix comment from commit 22655aa231.

  2. Add a few recent commits to .git-blame-ignore-revs.

  3. Pre-beta2 mechanical code beautification.

  4. Pre-beta mechanical code beautification.

  5. Make agreed-on updates in perltidy options.

  6. Remove obsolete pgindent options --code-base and --build

  7. Integrate pg_bsd_indent into our build/test infrastructure.

  8. Sync pg_bsd_indent's copyright notices with Postgres practice.

  9. Import pg_bsd_indent sources.

  10. pgindent: filter files for the --commit option

  11. pgindent: more ways to find files to indent

  12. Fix pgindent --show-diff option.

  13. Add non-destructive modes to pgindent

  14. Initial pgindent run with pg_bsd_indent version 2.0.