* rustfmt install instruction gotcha rustfmt stopped working for me. It turns out people started having trouble with this last year already https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustfmt/issues/2304 * rustfmt on a single file now works! Secrets inside After `rustup component add rustfmt-preview` I get rustfmt as a command in my terminal. `rustfmt --help` reveals --write-mode [replace|overwrite|display|plain|diff|coverage|checkstyle] and we've been using the default which is either `overwrite` or `replace` (depending on rustfmt version) and this was changing a bunch of files and a messed up workflow. * Newcomer-friendly explanation how to use `rustfmt`
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Grin Style Guide
Grin uses rustfmt to maintain consistent formatting.
Install rustfmt (nightly)
Note: we assume Rust has been installed via Rustup. See build docs for more info.
rustfmt itself requires the nightly toolchain -
rustup update
rustup install nightly
rustup run nightly cargo install rustfmt-nightly
If you still get problems with running cargo +nightly fmt
, you might need to also do rustup component add rustfmt-preview
(see more info)
Install git pre-commit hook
There is a basic git pre-commit hook in the repo.
The pre-commit hook will not prevent commits if style issues are present but it will indicate any files that need formatting.
To enable this, create a symlink in .git/hooks
(note the relative path) -
cd .git/hooks
ln -s -f ../../.hooks/pre-commit
Running rustfmt
To run rustfmt against a single file, this new command works with latest rust and after having done rustup component add rustfmt-preview
and by setting --write-mode it doesn't overwrite files.
First maybe try a dry-run to see what changes would be made:
rustfmt --write-mode diff -- client.rs
Then if you don't want to do any other cleanups manually, make rustfmt make the changes
rustfmt -- client.rs
and add that as a separate commit at the end of your Pull Request.
The old method would typically change formatting in nearly every file in the grin repo. If you feel adventurous, try this:
cargo +nightly fmt -- ./core/src/lib.rs
(and please take care, since the ending -- file/names.rs
actually doesn't have any effect)