I think the Go guys got it right: pick a format, enforce it with auto formatter, and deal with some of the consequences. The linux style is fine with me -- I always liked 8 spaces anyway.
One of the harvey guys set up a clang format dotfile which is essentially linux style, if you want it. It's a bit more consistent than lindent. ron On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 7:35 PM Dan Cross <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Barret Rhoden <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> [...] > > On occasion, I'm tempted to just switch over completely to the Linux >> style, run checkpatch on the entire code base, and fix it all in one >> fell swoop. The downside is that it'd mess up the git history a bit, >> such that git blame wouldn't be as useful since a bunch of lines are >> getting changed purely for formatting reasons. >> > > I could really get behind this; I've seen it done on a few really large > projects now and inevitably it is not nearly as bad as one thinks it will > be: there's sort of one great cataclysmic event in the source history that > folks more or less learn they need to run blame around; it could be > committed with a tag or something that would make it easy to run blame, > diff, or whatever before or after The Great Reformatting of 2015. > > The Linux style isn't my personal preference, but I think it's more > important that we have strictness and consistency than that any one style > win over another. But if we're going to do it, I'd give you a whole dollar > and take you to lunch if we moved the return type to a line by itself > before the name of the function (I've never gotten into ctags et al, and > that style makes it easy to use tools like 'grep' to find function > definitions). > > - Dan C. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Akaros" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akaros" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
