Hi, On 09/29/2017 08:40 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Going forward, is there an easy way to preview the effect of this kind > of change (e.g., to run "make style" on the entire codebase so as to be > able to compare the result with two different versions of > .clang-format)? I just ran clang-format before and after the patch and pushed to github. The resulting diff is quite big: https://github.com/sbeyer/git/commit/3d1186c4cf4dd7e40b97453af5fc1170f6868ccd Cheers Stephan PS: There should be a comment at the beginning of the .clang-format file that says what version it is tested with (on my machine it worked with 5.0 but not with 4.0) and there should also probably a remark that the clang-format-based style should only be understood as a hint or guidance and that most of the Git codebase does not conform it.