Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make 'find' syntax consistent; add .git exclusion to make_ctags. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make 'find' syntax consistent; add .git exclusion to make_ctags.
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Msg-id 20090115031216.GW24156@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make 'find' syntax consistent; add .git exclusion to make_ctags.  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make 'find' syntax consistent; add .git exclusion to make_ctags.  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera escreveu:
> > > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > >>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >>>> Log Message:
> > >>>> -----------
> > >>>> Make 'find' syntax consistent;  add .git exclusion to make_ctags.
> > >>> Should this consider the distdir target in /GNUmakefile.in too?
> > >> It only is looking for _directories_ to put 'tags' into.
> > > 
> > > I have to admit that I find this whole idea a bit weird.  Is it common
> > > to symlink the tags file?
> > > 
> > > What I did was tell my editor that the tags file is to be found on the
> > > root source directory.  It seems the most natural way to do this.  Am I
> > > alone in this?
> > > 
> > No, I do it too.
> 
> Well, I just tell my editor to look for the tags file in the current
> directory so I don't have to configure it.

But you had to configure the make_etags script :-)  It just seems that
the cruft is in a different place.  Don't the tags symlinks show up in
diff output and stuff like that?

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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