Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] clang-format: modify rules to reduce false-positives

> Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This series is in response to an email thread [1] around the usage of
>> '.clang-format' and its effectiveness.
>>
>> The goal of the series is to improve the usage of 'clang-format' in the
>> repository. To do this we:
>> 1. Reduce the number of false positives. Majority of which is due to
>>    line-wrapping. We remove the 'ColumnLimit' from 'clang-format'. This
>>    removes the responsibility of line-wrapping from 'clang-format' and puts
>>    it into the hands of the user.
>> 2. Add a rule to 'meson' to run 'git clang-format' by running 'meson
>>    compile style'.
>> 3. Make the 'RemoveBracesLLVM' permanent by moving it to
>>    '.clang-format'.
>
> Thanks for working on this. While the changes are not huge, I appreciate
> them.
>
>> With this, running `git clang-format` for the last 25 commits in master,
>> seems to produce much less false positives.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>   diff --git a/pathspec.h b/pathspec.h
>>   index 5e3a6f1fe7..601b9ca201 100644
>>   --- a/pathspec.h
>>   +++ b/pathspec.h
>>   @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ struct pathspec {
>>     * For git diff --no-index, indicate that we are operating without
>>     * a repository or index.
>>     */
>>   -#define PATHSPEC_NO_REPOSITORY (1<<7)
>>   +#define PATHSPEC_NO_REPOSITORY (1 << 7)
>
> I'm surprised, but I couldn't find a setting to change this...
>
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