On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 03:27:10PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Nathan Bossart <[email protected]> writes: >> I've attached a first try. You'll notice that I have borrowed heavily from >> .git-blame-ignore-revs. Some other things that might be worthwhile: > > There would need to be an initial entry at the time the file is > created, which would presumably point to some commit shortly before > the .0 version stamp is applied (or maybe we'd choose to do it around > rc1). The mockup should include that.
Sure, makes sense. > I'd be slightly inclined to have just one non-comment line, which > is the active reference hash value, and all the rest be comments. > The way you have it here requires the reading code to be smart > about end-of-line comments, which is code complexity we don't need > and doesn't seem amazingly legible either. OTOH, the precedent of > .git-blame-ignore-revs may be worth following regardless of our > personal druthers. That crossed my mind, too. I'm personally not too concerned about small deviations from .git-blame-ignore-revs, especially if it improves machine/human readability. -- nathan
