[PATCH] D50147: clang-format: support external styles

Mon Sep 2 09:26:02 PDT 2019

MyDeveloperDay added a comment.

I am not opposed to this idea, I actually think this has some mileage based on a use case I've encountered:

our team tends to use windows builds of clang-format from (https://llvm.org/builds/) because its easy to distribute the installer, this is ok but sometimes these snapshot builds can lag new features by 1-2 months

This can make introducing a new configuration option a problem because it requires us to have to get everyone upgraded before we can change the checked in .clang-format at the top of the tree.

If everyone isn't upgraded they start getting complaints about unknown configurations. Its not 100% obvious if those styles are being ignored, if no formatting at all is being done or if when clang-format is embedded inside Visual Studio or VIM what exactly is happening.

I see this feature would allow those on the bleeding edge to use an alternate .clang-format file (even if that was also in the root /.clang-format-next

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