Re: automated formatting

[David Kastrup]

Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> 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