Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Jesse Zhang <sbjesse@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2023-02-06T15:21:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2023-02-06 Mo 09:40, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 12:37 PM Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  wrote:
>> But it's not clear to me why you're allergic to the perl wrapper?
>> It's not like that's the only perl infrastructure in our build process.
>> Also, whether or not we could push some of what it does into pg_bsd_indent
>> proper, I can't see pushing all of it (for instance, the very PG-specific
>> list of typedef exclusions).
> I don't mind that there is a script. I do mind that it's not that good
> of a script. There have been some improvements for which I am
> grateful, like removing the thing where the first argument was taken
> as a typedefs file under some circumstances. But there are still some
> things that I would like:
>
> 1. I'd like to be able to run pgindent src/include and have it indent
> everything relevant under src/include. Right now that silently does
> nothing.
>
> 2. I'd like an easy way to indent the unstaged files in the current
> directory (e.g. pgindent --dirty) or the files that have been queued
> up for commit (e.g. pgindent --cached).
>
> 3. I'd also like an easy way to indent every file touched by a recent
> commit, e.g. pgindent --commit HEAD, pgindent --commit HEAD~2,
> pgindent --commit 62e1e28bf7.


Good suggestions. 1 and 3 seem fairly straightforward. I'll start on 
those, and look into 2.


cheers


andrew

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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.