[cmake-developers] Code style auto-formatting

[Robert Dailey]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 08:14 +0000, Stuermer, Michael SP/HZA-ZSEP wrote:
>> 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).
>
> We've used uncrustify with excellent results in the past, FWIW.
>
> It is a major hassle though.  We did a complete code reformat with a
> well-defined process, and then had all developers apply reformatting to
> their personal branches using a particular set of steps to minimize the
> insanity.
>

I'm willing to assist with a clang format file, I've worked with them
in the past. This means contributions will likely come with multiple
patch files, some containing only whitespace fixups per the clang
format.

How did you guys want to approach reformatting inconsistently
formatted source files?

Git has plenty of options to ignore whitespace in different ways, so
it's really a non-issue as far as auditability of logs and diffs go.