[libcxx-commits] [libcxx] [libc++] Add a merge driver that can apply clang-format (PR #73712)

[Louis Dionne via libcxx-commits]

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# This script can be installed in .git/config to allow rebasing old patches across
+# libc++'s clang-format of the whole tree. Most contributors should not require that
+# since they don't have many pre-clang-format patches lying around. This script is to
+# make it easier for contributors that do have such patches.
+#
+# The script is installed by running the following from the root of your repository:
+#
+#   $ git config merge.libcxx-reformat.name "Run clang-format when rebasing libc++ patches"
+#   $ git config merge.libcxx-reformat.driver "libcxx/utils/clang-format-merge-driver.sh %O %A %B %P"
+#   $ git config merge.libcxx-reformat.recursive binary
+#
+# This is based on https://github.com/nico/hack/blob/main/notes/auto_git_rebase_across_mechanical_changes.md.
+# Many thanks to Nico Weber for paving the way here.
+
+# Path to the file's contents at the ancestor's version.
+base=$1
+
+# Path to the file's contents at the current version.
+current=$2
+
+# Path to the file's contents at the other branch's version (for nonlinear histories, there might be multiple other branches).
+other=$3
+
+# The path of the file in the repository.
+path=$4
+
+clang-format --style=file --assume-filename=$path < $base > $base.tmp
+mv $base.tmp $base
+
+clang-format --style=file --assume-filename=$path < $current > $current.tmp
+mv $current.tmp $current
+
+clang-format --style=file --assume-filename=$path < $other > $other.tmp
+mv $other.tmp $other
+
+git merge-file $current $base $other
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ldionne wrote:

Will do -- however I'll mention that the original script didn't work out of the box, I had to make some modifications to it and removing these labels was something that fixed issues. I think I had to reorder the arguments to the script too, so that's probably what I need to keep as-is.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/73712