Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > To do it before every minor release would require re-indenting HEAD
> > as well (since the whole point is to keep HEAD and the back branches
> > consistent). I think we'd get too much push-back from developers
> > whose pending patches got broken. We can get away with reindenting
> > HEAD between development cycles, but probably not more often than that.
>
> I'm not convinced of that. If we did it more often, it might actually
> be less disruptive.
I believe it's possible to mechanically rebase a patch over an indent
run of the underlying branch with half a dozen commands or less. +1 for
reindenting all branches before each minor release, FWIW.
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