owenpan added a comment.

In D141098#4192785 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D141098#4192785>, @mehdi_amini 
wrote:

> In D141098#4111809 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D141098#4111809>, @owenpan wrote:
>
>> Can we just fix the buildbot so that it runs git-clang-format with 
>> `--binary`? Using clang-format-15 to format a patch to clang-format-16 
>> source still looks wrong to me.
>
> The general principle is that developers of LLVM 16 should be able to use 
> clang-format from the previous release (that is: one where we have prebuilt 
> binaries available) to format patches in general.
> It does not seem reasonable to me that we should need to build clang-format 
> ourselves for the purpose of writing patches to LLVM.

Agreed, except for the clang-format source, which its `.clang-format` files are 
part of.


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