On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 07:08:35AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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.

Ah, okay.  I understand your concern better now.

> 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 ;-)".

No, I don't think there's such a tool.  clang-format wants a lot of
format settings that aren't in EditorConfig, and EditorConfig wants to
address things that are not C source files.

> 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).

Would it be helpful if I sent a script that ran during CI to ensure they
stayed in sync for the couple places where they overlap?  I'm happy to
do so if you think it would be useful.
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