Re: [PATCH] cleanup hashindex for pg_migrator hashindex compat mode (for 8.4)

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>, Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cleanup hashindex for pg_migrator hashindex compat mode (for 8.4)
Date: 2009-05-25 17:53:20
Message-ID: 4A1ADB10.4010005@anarazel.de
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On 05/25/2009 07:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter<david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
>> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:24:05PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> If you'd like to accomplish something *useful* about this, how about
>>> pestering git upstream to support diff -c output format?
>
>> It looks like this is doable with a suitable git configuration file
>> such as $HOME/.gitconfig or (finer grain) a .git/config for the
>> repository :)
>
> Cool, let's see one.
>
> If we were to put it into a repository config file, that would more or
> less have the effect of enforcing a project style for diffs, no?
Yes and no.

You can define that a subset (or all) files use a specific "diff driver"
in the repository - unfortunately the definition of that driver has to
be done locally. Defining it currently involves installing a wrapper
like the one on http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Talk:Working_with_Git
and doing

Andres

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