Re: pgindent-polluted commits

On 01/13/2016 12:13 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
>> On 13 January 2016 at 14:48, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
>>> I've noticed commits, from a few of you, carrying pgindent changes to lines
>>> the patch would not otherwise change.
>> Could we review again why this matters?
> Basically this is trading off convenience of the committer (all of the
> alternatives Noah mentions are somewhat annoying) versus the convenience
> of post-commit reviewers.  I'm not sure that his recommendation is the
> best trade-off, nor that the situation is precisely comparable to
> pre-commit review.  There definitely will be pre-commit review, there
> may or may not be any post-commit review.
>
> I'm willing to go with the "separate commit to reindent individual files"
> approach if there's a consensus that that makes for a cleaner git history.
> But I'm not 100% convinced it matters.
>
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I do think it makes life easier when going through the git history if 
semantic changes are separated from formatting changes.

cheers

andrew