Re: .clang-format: how useful, how often used, and how well maintained?

> Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> For that, there are a few things we'd probably need to do:
>>>
>>>  - Improve our tooling so that the develper can check a range of
>>>    commits they made before running format-patch, and other
>>>    situations.
>>>
>>>  - Improve .clang-format rules to reduce false positives.
>>>
>>
>> I think the biggest issue for this is around line wrapping, I'm
>> considering just removing it from the '.clang-format'. Perhaps we could
>> add it to our '.editorconfig'?
>
> I would not stop others from trying to improve the rules in such a
> way that only an overly long lines (like >120 columns) are folded to
> reasonable length (line ~72 columns) without doing anything else
> (like not concatenating adjacent lines only because the result would
> be shorter than 80 columns), but if it is more involved than we can
> manage, removing it from .clang-format so that "make style" would
> not use would be the best (or "the least bad") approach.