Re: branching for 9.2devel

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-05-04T17:21:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
>> You can't indent patches, only patched files. And that's the problem 
>> with this happy scheme. For it to work at all sanely we'd need to keep 
>> the committed code that the patch is to be applied against strictly 
>> pgindent clean, presumably via some automated process such as a commit 
>> hook. That's been suggested in the past, but hasn't met with universal 
>> approval, IIRC.

Well, there is another solution to this, which is to use Git branches
and forks instead of mailing around patches.

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com