On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 7:23 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 8:45 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> +1. I think this is more annoying than the status quo ante.
>
> > Although ... I do think it's spared me some rebasing pain, and that
> > does have some real value. I wonder if we could think of other
> > alternatives.
>
> An alternative I was thinking about after reading your earlier email
> was going back to the status quo ante, but doing the manual tree-wide
> reindents significantly more often than once a year. Adding one at
> the conclusion of each commitfest would be a natural thing to do,
> for instance. It's hard to say what frequency would lead to the
> least rebasing pain, but we know once-a-year isn't ideal.
That seems like the best alternative we have. The old status quo did
occasionally allow code with indentation that *clearly* wasn't up to
project standards to slip in. It could stay that way for quite a few
months at a time. That wasn't great either.
--
Peter Geoghegan
