Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Checkpatch is OK, but IIRC, you cannot ask to check "only the code I > changed in this patch" to clang-format, which may be the show > stopper. Otherwise, I would quite welcome an automated "pre-flight" > automation, like "make" target, that submitters can use and GGG can > help them use. Let me step a bit back. I do not think any automated tool would be free of false positives, so it is OK to configure the tool loose and have "judgement case" still be dealt by human reviewer, but if the automation is overly strict, that would probably waste submitters' time too much. You would need to accept that the new contributors are human and are capable of learning and configuring editors on their end, and after they get reminded of the style rules once or twice and they get used to the process, they would also help coaching yet even newer contributors. I personally feel that the level of style issues that need to be pointed out among the recent list traffic is not overly excessive. Thanks.
