Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakrejda@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Jesse Zhang <sbjesse@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Date: 2023-10-18T07:56:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 11:07 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> > If it doesn't know how to rebuild it, aren't we going to be stuck in a
> > catch-22 if we need to change it in certain ways? Since an old version
> > of pg_bsd_indent would reject the patch that might include updating
> > it. (And when it does, one should expect the push to take quite a long
> > time, but given the infrequency I agree that part is probably not an
> > issue)
>
> Everyone who has proposed this has included a caveat that there must
> be a way to override the check.  Given that minimal expectation, it
> shouldn't be too hard to deal with pg_bsd_indent-updating commits.

I haven't managed to fully keep up with the thread, so I missed that.
And i can't directly find it looking back either - but as long as
three's an actual idea for how to do that, the problem goes away :)

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Commits

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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.