Re: [PATCH] Add an EditorConfig file

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> I think "make style" and the EditorConfig file are complementary.  "make
> style" autoformats code into a diff.  I agree that if we always used
> clang-format to format code, then this would be a non-issue in the
> EditorConfig file, since we'd just tell people to format their code and
> be done with it.  However, we don't automatically do that, so I think
> this still has value.

Oh, we agree on that 100%.  These are complementary.  

My comment was that it would be confusing if they gave contradicting
suggestions to the end user.  After letting EditorConfig to enforce
one style while typing and saving, if "make style" suggests to
format it differently, it would not be a great user experience.

The ideal response would have been "Oh, of course EditorConfig folks
already thought about that, which is a natural thing to wish for,
and they have a tool to generate clang-format configuration from the
section for C language in any EditorConfig file---here is a link.
After all, tools like clang-format look like just another editor to
them ;-)".

But that is a response in a dream-world.  If there is no such tool,
I am perfectly OK if the plan is to manually keep them (loosely) in
sync.  I do not think it is good use of our time to try to come up
with such a tool (unless somebody is really interested in doing it,
that is).

Thanks.