[cmake-developers] Code style auto-formatting

[Kislinskiy, Stefan]

Do you know ClangFormat[1]? Pretty popular choice these days. You just put a format description file into your repository (which can be based on popular styles + your exceptions to keep the file rather small). It can be integrated into many editors including the Visual Studio IDE. You probably want to add a hook to your git repository to automatically format your code when committing. See the link for details.

Best regards,
Stefan

[1] http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html

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Von: cmake-developers [cmake-developers-bounces at cmake.org] im Auftrag von Stuermer, Michael  SP/HZA-ZSEP [michael.stuermer at schaeffler.com]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. November 2015 09:14
An: CMake Developers
Betreff: Re: [cmake-developers] Code style auto-formatting

I asked something similar half a year ago:

https://cmake.org/pipermail/cmake-developers/2015-June/025498.html

In short, there is no fully automated style checking. If someone would come up with a tool & configuration I would love to use this. So far I tested astyle and the C++ edition of ReSharper (unfortunately quite expensive).

The more complicated thing would be, that you have to run the formatter over all existing code and thus you would introduce a huge amount of meaningless changes. I believe (and partially understand) many developers here on the list wouldn't really like large cosmetic changes like this.

best regards,
Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cmake-developers [mailto:cmake-developers-bounces at cmake.org]
> On Behalf Of Robert Dailey
> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 3:01 AM
> To: CMake Developers
> Subject: [cmake-developers] Code style auto-formatting
>
> IMHO, the code style in the CMake code base is incredibly inconsistent, but
> even the consistent style that is there is a giant pain to follow by hand.
>
> I'm constantly fighting my tooling's auto formatting. I prefer to keep my code
> additions similar to surrounding code. Do you use some tool such as clang-
> format to auto format code? This will make it easier to make my style more
> consistent after my work is completed.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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