Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 at 15:40, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> I didn't really like your hook, as it forces a reindent, and many people
> won't want that (for reasons given elsewhere in this thread).

I'm not sure what you mean by "forces a reindent". Like I explained
you can simply run "git commit" again to ignore the changes and
commit anyway. As long as the files are indented on your filesystem
the hook doesn't care if you actually included the indentation changes
in the changes that you're currently committing.

So to be completely clear you can do the following with my hook:
git commit # runs pgindent and fails
git commit # commits changes anyway
git commit -am 'Run pgindent' # commit indentation changes separately

Or what I usually do:
git commit # runs pgindent and fails
git add --patch # choose relevant changes to add to commit
git commit # commit the changes
git checkout -- . # undo irrelevant changes on filesystem

Honestly PGAUTOINDENT=no seems stricter, since the only
way to bypass the failure is now to run manually run pgindent
or git commit with the --no-verify flag.

> files=$(git diff --cached --name-only --diff-filter=ACMR)
> src/tools/pgindent/pgindent $files

That seems like it would fail if there's any files or directories with
spaces in them. Maybe this isn't something we care about though.

> # no need to filter files - pgindent ignores everything that isn't a
> # .c or .h file

If the first argument is a non .c or .h file, then pgindent interprets
it as the typedefs file. So it's definitely important to filter non .c
and .h files out. Because now if you commit a single
non .c or .h file this hook messes up the indentation in all of
your files. You can reproduce by running:
src/tools/pgindent/pgindent README

> # only do this on master
> test "$branch" = "master" || return 0

I would definitely want a way to disable this check. As a normal
submitter I never work directly on master.