On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Anthony Jones <ajo...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On 31/01/14 13:25, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
> > I think what Bobby is saying is that a tool which restyles only lines
> > that have only been modified isn't much use. For example, much of
> > XPConnect uses 4-space indents, when it should use 2-space indents,
> > and fixing that cannot be sensibly done in any way other than an
> > entire file (or files) at a time. (And if we're going to fix
> > indentation, obviously we should fix any other style problems at the
> > same time.)
>
> In order to make this happen I've run clang-format on XPConnect and
> uploaded it to bug 966840.
>

XPConnect currently follows JS-style, which is the most divergent style in
the tree (in particular, 4-space indents mean that a restyle is going to
rewrite every line). As such, I don't think it's a great place to prototype
clang-format restyles. At minimum, we should do dom/ and content/ first.

bholley
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