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Re: cleanup: Split long Makefile lists across lines and sort them

Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> — 2025-12-25T09:37:10Z

> On Dec 25, 2025, at 17:07, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> wrote:
> 
> On Wed Dec 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM CET, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
>> Oops. Fixed in attached.
> 
> I had accidentally included a trailing backspace in one of the lists. To
> my surprise that worked fine. Since these trailing separators result in
> smaller git diffs when a new item is added at the end of the list, I
> decided to put such trailing backslashes in all the lists in this patch.
> <v3-0001-cleanup-Split-long-Makefile-lists-across-lines-an.patch>

```
+REGRESS = \
+	page \
+	brin \
+	btree \
+	checksum \
+	gin \
+	gist \
+	hash \
+	oldextversions \
```

If we look at existing Makefiles, they don’t add a tailing “\” in the last line of lists, so let’s keep consistent.

Best regards,
--
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/