Re: [PATCH v3 8/8] ci/style-check: add `RemoveBracesLLVM` to '.clang-format'

> Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> If we know we can write into /tmp/clang-format-rules file, then the
>>> CI script can do something like
>>>
>>> 	{
>>> 		cat .clang-format
>>> 		echo echo "RemoveBracesLLVM: true"
>>> 	} >/tmp/clang-format-rules
>>> 	git clang-format --style=file:/tmp/clang-format-rules \
>>> 		 --diff --extensions c,h "$baseCommit"
>>>
>>> right?  Then "git status" would even say "there is no untracked
>>> cruft" (although I do not know we *need* to keep the working tree
>>> that clean, without untracked cruft).
>>
>> Yes this is the best solution.
>
> FWIW, I think an in-tree throw-away file is a better option, simply
> because we _know_ that the working tree can be written (by the fact
> that we can do "make" and have compilers write *.o and other cruft),
> but we do not know if the CI environment allows us to write to /tmp
> or /var/tmp or /usr/local/tmp and you do not want to run around and
> see if there is a suitable temporary directory you can use.