On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 03:27:10PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> writes:
>> I've attached a first try. You'll notice that I have borrowed heavily from
>> .git-blame-ignore-revs. Some other things that might be worthwhile:
>
> There would need to be an initial entry at the time the file is
> created, which would presumably point to some commit shortly before
> the .0 version stamp is applied (or maybe we'd choose to do it around
> rc1). The mockup should include that.
Sure, makes sense.
> I'd be slightly inclined to have just one non-comment line, which
> is the active reference hash value, and all the rest be comments.
> The way you have it here requires the reading code to be smart
> about end-of-line comments, which is code complexity we don't need
> and doesn't seem amazingly legible either. OTOH, the precedent of
> .git-blame-ignore-revs may be worth following regardless of our
> personal druthers.
That crossed my mind, too. I'm personally not too concerned about small
deviations from .git-blame-ignore-revs, especially if it improves
machine/human readability.
--
nathan
