git-cmake-format

This project aims to provide a quick and easy way to integrate clang-format into your CMake project hosted in a git repository, it consists of three elements.

• CMakeLists.txt provides the custom format target
• git-pre-commit-hook blocks commits of unformatted C/C++ files
• git-cmake-format.py is called by the format target or the pre-commit hook, it queries git for edited files, then block the commit or formats the sources

Dependencies

There are three dependencies:

• git 2.7+
• python 2.7+
• clang-format

Usage

To make use of this project you can either add it as a submodule to your existing project, or copy the files into your repository. It is mandatory to set GCF_TOP_LEVEL_DIR to the directory of the git repository in which the hooks should be installed. You can add the following to your CMakeLists.txt.

set(GCF_GIT_TOP_LEVEL_DIR ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR})
add_subdirectory(/path/to/git-cmake-format)

Next you can generate your build system, assuming the required dependencies are available on your path.

cd build
cmake ..

The installation of the pre-commit hook is done at CMake time during the generation of the build system, if you have followed these steps it is already installed at /path/to/your/project/.git/hooks/pre-commit.

Options

It is possible to specify the path to any of the executables this project depends upon using the following CMake variables.

• GCF_GIT_PATH:STRING=/path/to/git
• GCF_PYTHON_PATH:STRING=/path/to/python
• GCF_CLANGFORMAT_PATH:STRING=/path/to/clang-format defaults to clang-format
• GCF_CLANGFORMAT_MINIMAL_VERION:STRING=minimal_version defaults to 0.0.0

It is also possible to set the -style= command line argument for clang-format with the following options, the default is file

• GCF_CLANGFORMAT_STYLE:STRING=WebKit

By default, the hook and script are not installed if a custom hook or the script is already present. This behavior can be changed by setting

• GCF_FORCE_OVERWRITE:BOOL default OFF

to ON.