Re: pgindent-polluted commits

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:13:11PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 13 January 2016 at 14:48, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
> >> I've noticed commits, from a few of you, carrying pgindent changes to lines
> >> the patch would not otherwise change.
>
> > Could we review again why this matters?
>
> Basically this is trading off convenience of the committer (all of the
> alternatives Noah mentions are somewhat annoying) versus the convenience
> of post-commit reviewers. I'm not sure that his recommendation is the
> best trade-off, nor that the situation is precisely comparable to
> pre-commit review. There definitely will be pre-commit review, there
> may or may not be any post-commit review.

That's a good summary.

> I'm willing to go with the "separate commit to reindent individual files"
> approach if there's a consensus that that makes for a cleaner git history.
> But I'm not 100% convinced it matters.

Thanks.