Re: Time to put context diffs in the grave

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Time to put context diffs in the grave
Date: 2018-06-19 21:45:05
Message-ID: CAH2-Wz=cA+_qL9rhZRAJRpGnDzHuKNrV+0G852zSGoW-ACcdJQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 2:41 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Not requiring them is considerably different from actually trying
> to stamp them out. To my mind, where we're trying to go here is
> not having one set of people impose their diff format preferences
> on other people.

Am I the only one that doesn't use context diffs and also doesn't hate
them with a passion? I don't get it.

> There's already a (perhaps underdocumented) way to make regression
> diffs look the way you want in local runs.

Actually, it is documented.

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Peter Geoghegan

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