Re: clang formating

[Ron Economos]

It's apparently not documented, but it works without --style-file as 
long as a .clang-format file exists in a directory at or above your 
current directory. You can test it with:

clang-format --dump-config

Ron

On 11/11/20 02:53, Johannes Demel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> unless the clang-format behavior changed, the function call should be:
>
> clang-format --style=file -i path/to/file.cc
>
> The `--style=file` option tells clang-format to search for a 
> `.clang-format` file.
>
> Cheers
> Johannes
>
> On 11.11.20 11:47, Ron Economos wrote:
> > I forgot to mention, you have to run clang-format-10 in tree. It gets 
> > the formatting rules from the file .clang-format in the top level 
> > directory.
> >
> > Ron
> >
> > On 11/11/20 02:41, Ron Economos wrote:
> > > On Ubuntu 20.04:
> > >
> > > sudo apt-get install clang-format-10
> > >
> > > Then update your changed files.
> > >
> > > clang-format-10 -i sourcefile.cc
> > >
> > > The -i formats the file in place. Otherwise, output is to stdout.
> > >
> > > Ron
> > >
> > > On 11/11/20 02:20, Volker Schroer wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I just made a pr and got the message that the pr formatting check
> > > > failed. But looking at the output I don't understand, what's wrong.
> > > >
> > > > Even more I'd like to know how I can do the formatting check locally.
> > > > The coding guide in the wiki is empty.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance
> > > >
> > > > -- Volker