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From: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl•com>
To: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Cc: chriscool@tuxfamily•org, jltobler@gmail•com, gitster@pobox•com,
	Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] clang-format: modify rules to reduce false-positives
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:36:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ql8qbhp.fsf@iotcl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250630-525-make-clang-format-more-robust-v2-0-05cbcdbf7817@gmail.com>

Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail•com> writes:

> This series is in response to an email thread [1] around the usage of
> '.clang-format' and its effectiveness.
>
> The goal of the series is to improve the usage of 'clang-format' in the
> repository. To do this we:
> 1. Reduce the number of false positives. Majority of which is due to
>    line-wrapping. We remove the 'ColumnLimit' from 'clang-format'. This
>    removes the responsibility of line-wrapping from 'clang-format' and puts
>    it into the hands of the user.
> 2. Add a rule to 'meson' to run 'git clang-format' by running 'meson
>    compile style'.
> 3. Make the 'RemoveBracesLLVM' permanent by moving it to
>    '.clang-format'.

Thanks for working on this. While the changes are not huge, I appreciate
them.

> With this, running `git clang-format` for the last 25 commits in master,
> seems to produce much less false positives.
>
> [snip]
>
>   diff --git a/pathspec.h b/pathspec.h
>   index 5e3a6f1fe7..601b9ca201 100644
>   --- a/pathspec.h
>   +++ b/pathspec.h
>   @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ struct pathspec {
>     * For git diff --no-index, indicate that we are operating without
>     * a repository or index.
>     */
>   -#define PATHSPEC_NO_REPOSITORY (1<<7)
>   +#define PATHSPEC_NO_REPOSITORY (1 << 7)

I'm surprised, but I couldn't find a setting to change this...


-- 
Cheers,
Toon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-07-01 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-25 16:43 [PATCH 0/4] clang-format: modify rules to reduce false-positives Karthik Nayak
2025-06-25 16:43 ` [PATCH 1/4] editorconfig: set maximum line length to 120 characters Karthik Nayak
2025-06-25 18:41   ` Junio C Hamano
2025-06-26  8:27     ` Karthik Nayak
2025-06-26 14:25       ` Junio C Hamano
2025-06-27  8:38         ` Karthik Nayak
2025-06-26 16:22   ` Justin Tobler
2025-06-27  8:51     ` Karthik Nayak
2025-06-27 15:12       ` Justin Tobler
2025-06-30  8:29         ` Karthik Nayak
2025-06-25 16:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] clang-format: set 'ColumnLimit' to 0 Karthik Nayak
2025-06-25 16:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] clang-format: add 'RemoveBracesLLVM' to the main config Karthik Nayak
2025-06-25 16:43 ` [PATCH 4/4] meson: add rule to run 'git clang-format' Karthik Nayak
2025-06-26 16:35   ` Justin Tobler
2025-06-27  8:12     ` Karthik Nayak
2025-06-27 14:25       ` Junio C Hamano
2025-06-30  8:34         ` Karthik Nayak
2025-06-30 15:24           ` Junio C Hamano
2025-06-30  8:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] clang-format: modify rules to reduce false-positives Karthik Nayak
2025-06-30  8:38   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] clang-format: set 'ColumnLimit' to 0 Karthik Nayak
2025-06-30  8:38   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] clang-format: add 'RemoveBracesLLVM' to the main config Karthik Nayak
2025-06-30  8:38   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] meson: add rule to run 'git clang-format' Karthik Nayak
2025-07-01 10:13     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-07-01 15:08       ` Karthik Nayak
2025-07-01 16:02       ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-01 13:26     ` Toon Claes
2025-07-01 15:12       ` Karthik Nayak
2025-07-02  2:54         ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-06-30 15:27   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] clang-format: modify rules to reduce false-positives Junio C Hamano
2025-07-01 13:36   ` Toon Claes [this message]
2025-07-01 15:19     ` Karthik Nayak
2025-07-01 20:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-02  9:23 ` [PATCH v3 " Karthik Nayak
2025-07-02  9:23   ` [PATCH v3 1/3] clang-format: set 'ColumnLimit' to 0 Karthik Nayak
2025-07-02  9:23   ` [PATCH v3 2/3] clang-format: add 'RemoveBracesLLVM' to the main config Karthik Nayak
2025-07-02  9:23   ` [PATCH v3 3/3] meson: add rule to run 'git clang-format' Karthik Nayak

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