Re: pgindent vs. git whitespace check

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 08:26:23PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > On 29 Mar 2023, at 19:18, Bruce Momjian  wrote:
> > We would have to convert all supported branches, and tell all forks to
> > do the same (hopefully at the same time).  The new standard would then
> > be for all single-line comments to use // instead of /* ... */.
> 
> That still leaves every patch which is in flight on -hackers, and conflicts in
> local development trees etc.  It's doable (apart from forks, but that cannot be
> our core concern), but I personally can't see the price paid justify the result.

Yes, this would have to be done at the start of a new release cycle.

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