On Wed, 18 Nov 2015, Jeff Law wrote: > Given that gnu-indent seems to muck up C++ badly in my > experience, clang-format may be a better long term solution. I'd really like > to get to a point one day where formatting is a commit hook so that things are > always kept properly formatted.
I hope you don't mean the direct interpretation; that the result of indent (any indent program) should be blindly committed, but that it should (perhaps) be used to (re)format and the commit refused if there's a diff. No tool should be trusted to override the committers' edits. Really. brgds, H-P