From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
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Subject: Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> ... then you could do
>      pgindent `git dirty`
> The only danger would be if there were no dirty files. Maybe we need a 
> switch to inhibit using the current directory if there are no command 
> line files.

It seems like "indent the whole tree" is about to become a minority
use-case.  Maybe instead of continuing to privilege that case, we
should say that it's invoked by some new switch like --all-files,
and without that only the stuff identified by command-line arguments
gets processed.

			regards, tom lane