Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 12:37 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

But it's not clear to me why you're allergic to the perl wrapper?
It's not like that's the only perl infrastructure in our build process.
Also, whether or not we could push some of what it does into pg_bsd_indent
proper, I can't see pushing all of it (for instance, the very PG-specific
list of typedef exclusions).

I don't mind that there is a script. I do mind that it's not that good
of a script. There have been some improvements for which I am
grateful, like removing the thing where the first argument was taken
as a typedefs file under some circumstances. But there are still some
things that I would like:

1. I'd like to be able to run pgindent src/include and have it indent
everything relevant under src/include. Right now that silently does
nothing.

2. I'd like an easy way to indent the unstaged files in the current
directory (e.g. pgindent --dirty) or the files that have been queued
up for commit (e.g. pgindent --cached).

3. I'd also like an easy way to indent every file touched by a recent
commit, e.g. pgindent --commit HEAD, pgindent --commit HEAD~2,
pgindent --commit 62e1e28bf7.

Good suggestions. 1 and 3 seem fairly straightforward. I'll start on those, and look into 2.

cheers

andrew

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