[Development] clang-format

[Ville Voutilainen]

On 19 June 2018 at 19:13, Philippe <philwave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For the above reasons I'd lean towards not running it globally and just using it
>> on new changes.
>
> +1, based on my clang-format experience on a big application.
>
> BTW, keep in mind that you can disable clang-format on code sections with:
>
> // clang-format off
> // clang-format on

When I last experienced a large-scale clang-format reformat, it really
hurt development
during the churn. We should somehow manage to do it during a time when
there aren't
many pending patches in the pipeline. I'm not concerned about
git-blame; that has never
been a problem after reformats. However, I do not care about
indentation nor do I want
to spend time on it either way, it has no actual effect on readability
and maintainability
of code, and consistency outside the file you're in has never mattered
to me one bit.

IOW, I'm not opposed to reformats and auto-checking of clang-format
(or even hooking it),
but I do not see it as a thing with all that great return-of-investment.