Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> 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.
Yeah? Can you show an example?
regards, tom lane