proto3 pretty printer

[Jason Polis]

Is there a pretty printer that will format proto3 consistently

making it easier to compare diffs over the long term ?

[Josh Humphries]

At FullStory, we use clang-format to format protobuf code. And we have a custom linter for catching some other style issues, outside of just formatting.

The clang-format tool doesn't have a ton of options for protos, but it's been good enough for our purposes. It can get confused when you have complicated custom options -- like message options, where you put a long message literal as the value -- which can lead to less-than-stellar results, aesthetically speaking.

But having a standard with some warts seemed better than no standard...

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Josh Humphries
jh...@bluegosling.com

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 11:08 AM Jason Polis <ja...@x-x.net> wrote:

Is there a pretty printer that will format proto3 consistently

making it easier to compare diffs over the long term ?

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