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exclude directory clang format

Is there any official directive in .clang-format file to exclude directory for applying?

Projects sometimes use git submodule, but it is not useful to run clang-format over all directory and then use git checkout to undo changes in submodule folder.

I have found some related links:

But they don't seem official.

Solution

  • So far, I don't know of any option of clang-format to exclude files or directories. But what I do, is to create the list of files I want to process in a bash script and then call clang-format for them:

    #!/bin/bash
folder=.
exclude_folder=./submodule
format_files=`find "${folder}" -type f -path "${exclude_folder}" -prune`

for file in $format_files
do
  clang-format -i "$file"
done

    Here the magic is done by the prune option in find. (How do I exclude a directory when using `find`?).

    Hope this help you at least.