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version control over visual studio formatting style

What's the way to go if I want to have a consistent style standard versioned? I want to achieve two things:

  1. Pressing ctrl-k,ctrl-f (auto indenting) formats the code based on a shared standard
  2. Stylecop runs against shared rules

What files do I have to add in my git repository to achieve this?

Solution

  • You can add a pre-commit hook.

    You can version in your git repo a hook script (say pre-commit.sh) at the root of your project and include the installation instructions in your README/documentation to encourage all developers use it.

    Installation is nothing more than:

    ln -s ../../pre-commit.sh .git/hooks/pre-commit

    As the article "Tips for using a git pre-commit hook", you need, in that hook, to ensure that code that isn't part of the prospective commit isn't tested within your pre-commit script:

    # pre-commit.sh
git stash -q --keep-index

# Test prospective commit
# call format, stylecop...

git stash pop -q