On 12/07/2024 16:09, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Of course if we really wanted to avoid end-user confusion and still want to have this in CI (if only to see how well the rule fares, and what the actual false-positive rate is), we _could_ run CI's job with custom .clang-format file that is not visible to end-users in their normal checkout, or something silly like that.
Getting some idea of how useful the auto-formatter is would be valuable I think.
If we are going to use it, then we should use it everywhere, making sure everybody is careful. If the cost of forcing everybody to be careful is too high, we may want to retract it, but we won't know until we try.
It would be great if we could find a way to auto-format the code without inconveniencing contributors.
Best Wishes Phillip
