exclude directory clang format

Question

Is there any official directive in .clang-format file to exclude directory for applying?

Projects sometimes use git submodule, but it is not useful to run clang-format over all directory and then use git checkout to undo changes in submodule folder.

I have found some related links:

But they don't seem official.

Does this answer your question? [How to ignore files or directories with clang-format 3.9](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50647960/how-to-ignore-files-or-directories-with-clang-format-3-9) — Antonio, Aug 13 '21 at 08:17

score 13 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 24 '20 at 11:35

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If you can add new _clang-format files (though in this case it looks like you can't?) you can create a new one with

DisableFormat: true
SortIncludes: false

Obviously this doesn't work if you can't add new _clang-format files :)

edited Nov 24 '20 at 11:35

Aleksey Kontsevich

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answered May 21 '19 at 17:13

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SortIncludes should be set to `Never` instead of false. – Increasingly Idiotic May 26 '21 at 19:47

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 10 '18 at 20:25

So far, I don't know of any option of clang-format to exclude files or directories. But what I do, is to create the list of files I want to process in a bash script and then call clang-format for them:

#!/bin/bash
folder=.
exclude_folder=./submodule
format_files=`find "${folder}" -type f -path "${exclude_folder}" -prune

for file in $format_files
do
  clang-format -i "$file"
done

Here the magic is done by the prune option in find. (How to exclude a directory in find . command).

Hope this help you at least.

Thank you for your answer.I think - it is useful solution. – Andrey Aug 13 '18 at 08:37 — Andrey, Aug 13 '18 at 08:37

exclude directory clang format

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