From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 15:29:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] clang-format: avoid braces on simple single-statement bodies
Message-ID: <42867b72-58e0-48d7-86eb-7c312db942dd@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7cdqpry4.fsf@gitster.g>

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