This repository contains a CMake file which generates a git hook that can format and check your source files before you commit them to your repository.

0. Install the formatters and linters for the file types that you want to format/lint (by default, it is enabled only for C/C++, so only these are mandatory):

• C/C++: Install clangd and clang-format
• CMake: pip install --user cmake_format
• Python: sudo apt install python-autopep8 pylint

1. Ensure that -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON is included in the CMake arguments when using CMake and formatting/linting C++ code.
2. If you use aduulm_cmake_tooks, you can include the git hooks in any of your packages' toplevel CMakeList.txt with a call to setup_git_hooks(). Otherwise, you may add the git_hooks repository as a submodule of your own repository and then include it with add_subdirectory("git_hooks") and setup_git_hooks()
3. Build your CMake project
4. Check that ./run_hooks and $(git rev-parse --git-dir)/hooks/pre-commit exist
5. Add run_hooks to your .gitignore file
6. Change some C++ files and see that they are formatted and checked when you commit the changes.

The pre-commit hook and the run_hooks script only check and format staged files by default. If you want to run it on all files in the repository at once, run ./run_hooks --all

• Formatter: ./run_hooks --all --modes format
• Linter: ./run_hooks --all --modes lint
• Both: ./run_hooks --all --modes format,lint or just ./run_hooks --all

To fix linter errors, run ./run_hooks --all --fix

If you want to make an intermediate commit and your source code does not compile yet, you can disable linting temporarily by setting the environment variable LINT to 0, e.g.:

DISABLE_LINTING=1 git commit -m ...

or

export DISABLE_LINTING=1
...
git commit -m ...
git commit -m ...
...
unset DISABLE_LINTING

You can pass arguments to the setup_git_hooks or create_git_hook call (setup_git_hooks is just a wrapper for create_git_hook, so they take the same arguments):

# Abort commit when files need formatting
setup_git_hooks(ABORT_COMMIT)

# defines which tools should be run on pre-commit (comma-separated list of: format, lint)
setup_git_hooks(MODES "format")

# colon-separated list of directories to ignore
setup_git_hooks(IGNORE_DIRS "src:include")

# Style option for clang-format (-style=...)
# You should probably leave this at "file", so that it uses
# the .clang-format file from the sandbox root
setup_git_hooks(CLANG_FORMAT_STYLE "file")

# comma-separated list of clang-tidy checks to perform
setup_git_hooks(CLANG_TIDY_CHECKS "readability-*,bugprone-*,modernize-*,google-*")

# You can set the formatters that should be run for all supported file types.
# Here are the defaults:
setup_git_hooks(cpp_FORMATTERS "clang-format") # Allowed: clang-format
setup_git_hooks(cpp_LINTERS "clang-tidy") # Allowed: clang-tidy
setup_git_hooks(cmake_FORMATTERS "") # Allowed: cmake-format
setup_git_hooks(cmake_LINTERS "")
setup_git_hooks(py_FORMATTERS "") # Allowed: autopep8
setup_git_hooks(py_LINTERS "") # Allowed: pylint

You may only have one call to setup_git_hooks() per package/project. You can however specify multiple options in one call. Remember to re-build your package after changing the CMakeLists.txt. There also exist global variants of the above options (except for IGNORE_DIRS) under the GCF_GLOBAL_ prefix.

• GCF_GLOBAL_ABORT_COMMIT: Same as ABORT_COMMIT, but for all projects
• GCF_GLOBAL_MODES: Same as MODES, but for all projects
• GCF_GLOBAL_CLANG_FORMAT_STYLE: Same as CLANG_FORMAT_STYLE, but for all projects
• GCF_GLOBAL_CLANG_TIDY_CHECKS: Same as CLANG_TIDY_CHECKS, but for all projects
• GCF_GLOBAL_py_LINTERS: Same as py_linters, but for all projects

In case of false positives, you can use a // NOLINT comment to signalize to clang-tidy that the line does not contain errors. Example:

return true; // NOLINT

// or

// NOLINTNEXTLINE
return true;

If your project does not use CMake (e.g. pure Python projects), but want to use a git hook for auto-formatting, you can use the init.sh script to create a minimal CMakeLists.txt file and a shell script for you, which can be used to configure the git hooks. Example:

/path/to/aduulm_sandbox/root/git_hooks/init.sh /path/to/project
# Creates CMakeLists.txt and configure_hooks.sh in git root of project

Then adapt CMakeLists.txt e.g. by changing the call to create_git_hook() to create_git_hook(py_FORMATTERS "autopep8"). Then, run ./configure_hooks.sh, which will create/update the hooks.

Because clang-tidy can only infer compiler flags for C++ source files and not for header files, header files which are not included by any source file in your project can not be checked. #include your header files in a source file if you want them to be checked (or use something like compdb).

If the git hooks produce errors about not finding header files and the following:

 Could not auto-detect compilation database from directory "/home/user/aduulm_sandbox/build/package_name"
 No compilation database found in /home/user/aduulm_sandbox/build/package_name or any parent directory
 fixed-compilation-database: Error while opening fixed database: No such file or directory
 json-compilation-database: Error while opening JSON database: No such file or directory

This means that it can not find the compilation database, which contains the flags which are needed to compile your files. This can occur in 2 cases:

• You did not build your CMake project before committing or the flags changed since you last built your backage.
• The path to your CMake project has changed. To fix this, navigate to the root of your workspace and delete all files generated by the git hooks:

find . -name ".git" -type d | xargs -n1 -I _DIR_ find _DIR_ -name "*.config.yaml" -exec rm {} \;
find . -name ".git" -type d | xargs -n1 -I _DIR_ find _DIR_ -name "pre-commit" -exec rm {} \;
find . -name "run_hooks" -exec rm {} \;

Then build your project again (which will cause the git hooks to re-create the necessary files) and try to commit again.

Based on https://github.com/kbenzie/git-cmake-format

License: Apache 2.0

Authors: Jan Strohbeck (MRM)

Maintainers: Jan Strohbeck, Thomas Wodtko, Robin Dehler, Michael Kösel (MRM)

Affiliation: Institute of Measurement, Control and Microtechnology (MRM), Ulm University