Problem: clang-format application can be overzealous

[yrashk]

Solution: allow excluding certain paths
by specifying them in the CLANG_FORMAT_IGNORED_PATHS list

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This is just a quick solution to a problem I had with a lot of vendored dependencies in the repo where I needed this. Happy to discuss if there's a better solution!

[ClausKlein]

What is your use case? It should do the same like git clang-format

[TheLartians]

@yrashk could it be a better solution to add a .clang-format-ignore file that includes the vendored dependency directory?
For example as described in this post.

[ClausKlein]

But than you need to update your copy of clang-format.py to llvm v18 or newer!

[yrashk]

And that would require clang-format to be of a newer version, too! 😀

[ClausKlein]

@TheLartians first off all the CI Must be fixed!

And #41 should be merged 😮

[TheLartians]

Sorry, the CI issue should be fixed now if you merge with main. I'm happy with using newer versions of the according formatting tools, but also with adding the suggested flag for scenarios where this is not possible. (also apologies for taking so long to respond, very busy atm)