I’m a proponent of run the tool over the whole tree and commit all the reformatting all at once. and, yes, then all the pending patches will need to run the reformatter, too. I don’t get adding all the effort of opt-in/out. any manual intervention for formatting seems wasted time (our very limited resource). any “need” for custom format that cannot be done automatically by a formatting tools is highly suspect, in my mind.
this whole thread is long overdue. this issue alone is what has kept me from bothering to post fixes and updates that I’ve done. My first commit, years ago now, a relatively small one from the low-hanging fruit recommended on the tickets, took three volleys over a week to get accepted… entirely for formatting issues that the, then, incomplete fromatter didn’t handle.
anyway, I hope this shakes out to alleviate that issue. I’ve got some pent up code desire to fix/advance the native Haiku environment.
keep up the great work, everyone!