Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanw...@gmail.com> writes: > I want to propose to move to automated formatting for our C++ code. > > I put up a .clang-format code that mostly mimicks our style at > > https://codereview.appspot.com/561340043 > > I have a lot of good experience with automating code formatting.. It > removes drudgery for code authors, obviates discussions over style in > code review, and generally elevates the level of discourse in our > reviews. > > What do you all think?
scripts/auxiliar/fixcc.py and astyle 2.04 is what we standardized on. > The current config modifies about 11k lines, mostly because of > different line breaks (necessary to keep the 80 column limit.) Any particular reason to change the automated style to a different one? Clang is a pretty big dependency for developers. > If anyone wants to tinker more, see > https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.html > for further options. > > Obviously, reformatting code makes patches harder to transport, so > we'd have to do it on all active branches at the same time. -- David Kastrup
