On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 8:24 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I also just discovered that my pre-commit hook doesn't work if I pull
> commits into master by cherry-picking. I had thought that I could have
> my hook just check my commits to master and not all of my local dev
> branches where I really don't want to mess with this when I'm just
> banging out a rough draft of something. But now I see that I'm going
> to need to work harder on this if I actually want it to catch all the
> ways I might screw this up.
Once you figure all that out, you're still obligated to hand-polish
typedefs.list to be consistent with whatever Bruce's machine's copy of
objdump does (or is it Tom's?). You need to sort the entries so they
kinda look like they originated from the same source as existing
entries, since my Debian machine seems to produce somewhat different
results to RHEL, for whatever reason. It's hard to imagine a worse use
of committer time.
I think that something like this new policy could work if the
underlying tooling was very easy to use and gave perfectly consistent
results on everybody's development machine. Obviously, that just isn't
the case.
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Peter Geoghegan