Re: 10% drop in code line count in PG 17

David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>

From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-11-20T21:16:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, 21 Nov 2025 at 09:27, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> # This script is used to compute the total number of "C" lines in the release
> -# This should be run from the top of the Git tree after a 'make distclean'
> -find . -name '*.[chyl]' | xargs cat| wc -l
> +# This should be run from the top of the Git tree.
> +git ls-files -- '*.[chyl]' | xargs cat | wc -l

I think you need to keep the "top of the Git tree" comment as git
ls-files is context-based.

David