Re: branching for 9.2devel

On May 3, 2011, at 11:10 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 05/03/2011 09:53 PM, David Blewett wrote:
>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:51 PM, David Blewett<david(at)dawninglight(dot)net> wrote:
>>> This seems like a pretty good idea, but maybe it'd be easiest to take
>>> it a step further and add an "automatic pgindent-ified" patch is
>>> created when a patch is added to the commitfest app?
>> That should read: ... but maybe it'd be easiest to take it a step
>> further and have an additional, automatically created patch file that
>> is run through pgindent when a patch is added to the commitfest app.
>>
>
> You can't indent patches, only patched files. And that's the problem with this happy scheme. For it to work at all sanely we'd need to keep the committed code that the patch is to be applied against strictly pgindent clean, presumably via some automated process such as a commit hook. That's been suggested in the past, but hasn't met with universal approval, IIRC.

What if this hypothetical tool pulled the latest source, made a copy of that source, applied the patch to the copy, pg_indented the original AND the copy, and then diff'd? I think that would give you a properly indented patch. The context lines in the patch would have the wrong indentation, but I think patch is pretty smart about dealing with that (or at least can be told to ignore whitespace differences).
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