Collin Funk wrote: > If we were to force code formatting conventions I would rather use > something comprehensive like clang-format. But I dislike that idea > anyways because unless every contributor uses the same version (very > unlikely), it leads to useless diff chunks due to formatter > disagreements.
Yes, having a code formatter jump into action at every commit is a bad idea. But it can be a good idea that new contributors run such a code formatter once, before doing their submission. Like last year, with the 'crc-x86_64' module. Bruno
