In 1b8f306612 (ci/style-check: add `RemoveBracesLLVM` in CI job,
2024-07-23) we added 'RemoveBracesLLVM' to the CI job of running the
clang formatter.
This rule checks and warns against using braces on simple
single-statement bodies of statements. Since we haven't had any issues
regarding this rule, we can now move it into the main clang-format
config and remove it from being CI exclusive.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For 'clang-format', setting 'RemoveBracesLLVM' to 'true', adds a check
to ensure we avoid curly braces for single-statement bodies in
conditional blocks.
However, the option does come with two warnings [1]:
This option will be renamed and expanded to support other styles.
and
Setting this option to true could lead to incorrect code formatting
due to clang-format’s lack of complete semantic information. As
such, extra care should be taken to review code changes made by
this option.
The latter seems to be of concern. While we want to experiment with the
rule, adding it to the in-tree '.clang-format' could affect end-users.
Let's only add it to the CI jobs for now. With time, we can evaluate
its efficacy and decide if we want to add it to '.clang-format' or
retract it entirely. We do so, by adding the existing rules in
'.clang-format' and this rule to a temp file outside the working tree,
which is then used by 'git clang-format'. This ensures we don't murk
with files in-tree.
[1]: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.html#removebracesllvm
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We don't run style checks on our CI, even though we have a
'.clang-format' setup in the repository. Let's add one, the job will
validate only against the new commits added and will only run on merge
requests. Since we're introducing it for the first time, let's allow
this job to fail, so we can validate if this is useful and eventually
enforce it.
For GitHub, we allow the job to pass by adding 'continue-on-error: true'
to the workflow. This means the job would show as passed, even if the
style check failed. To know the status of the job, users have to
manually check the logs.
For GitLab, we allow the job to pass by adding 'allow_failure: true', to
the job. Unlike GitHub, here the job will show as failed with a yellow
warning symbol, but the pipeline would still show as passed.
Also for GitLab, we use the 'CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_SHA'
variable by default to obtain the base SHA of the merged pipeline (which
is only available for merged pipelines [1]). Otherwise we use the
'CI_MERGE_REQUEST_DIFF_BASE_SHA' variable.
[1]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/variables/predefined_variables.html#predefined-variables-for-merge-request-pipelines
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Karthik Nayak