[Mesa-dev] [RFC mesa] Introduce .editorconfig

[Emil Velikov]

Hi Eric,

On 18 July 2016 at 00:46, Eric Engestrom <eric at engestrom.ch> wrote:
> A few weeks ago, Jose Fonseca suggested [0] we use .editorconfig files
> to try and enforce the formatting of the code, to which Michel Dänzer
> suggested [1] we start by importing the existing .dir-locals.el
> settings.
>
> This is a first draft, with settings from the mentioned emacs files,
> augmented with what I could see was the current practice in various
> submodules.
> Note that it might not reflects the desired formatting. Please say so if
> this is the case. I expect several of these .editorconfig files are in
> this situation, so don't hesitate to just tell me "the current formatting
> for X is wrong, we want to eventually match the project-wide formatting,
> so don't create this .editorconfig".
>
> These .editorconfig are a first step, one that has the advantage of
> requiring little to no intervention from the devs once the settings
> files are in place, but the settings are very limited. This does have
> the advantage of applying while the code is being written.
> This doesn't replace the need for more comprehensive formatting tools
> such as clang-format & clang-tidy, but those reformat the code after
> the fact.
>
> [0] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2016-June/121545.html
> [1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2016-June/121639.html
>
I believe the overall direction is that people are happy with these.
Can you update the patch addressing the few comments and adding the tags ?

Thanks
Emil