Hi Junio,

On Thu, 10 Aug 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Stefan Beller wrote:
> >
> >> > I am sure that something even better will be possible: a Continuous
> >> > "Integration" that fixes the coding style automatically by using
> >> > `filter-branch` (avoiding the merge conflicts that would arise if
> >> > `rebase -i` was used).
> >> 
> >> I do not quite follow. Is that to be used by Junio while integrating
> >> branches?
> >
> > I was more thinking about a bot on GitHub. "Code cleanup as a service".
> 
> I vaguely recall that there was a discussion to have SubmitGit wait
> for success from Travis CI; if that is already in place, then I can
> sort of see how it would help individual contributors to have the
> style checker in that pipeline as well.  
> 
> I have a mixed feelings about "fixing" styles automatically, though.

That's too bad. I would much rather focus on quality of code than
conformance of style, even if the latter is a lot easier than the former.

Ciao,
Dscho

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