fglgitformat

The fglgitformat tool reformats the source lines changed in a GIT history.

Syntax

fglgitformat [options] [commit] [file [...]]

commit is a GIT commit specification (like HEAD~2). Uses HEAD by default.
file is a filename to process. When no file is specified, reformat changes for all modified files.
options are described in Table 1.

Options

Table 1. fglgitformat options
Option	Description
`-h` or `--help`	Displays options for the tool.
`-i` or `--inplace`	Reformats the source files instead of writing the diff with reformated code to stdout.
`-v` or `--verbose`	Output the new diff to stdout. Ineffective without `-i/--inplace`.

Usage

The fglgitformat command line tool reformats changes registered in a GIT project history, by using the formatter (fglcomp --format) to beautify the modified lines.

By default, the diff text is written to the (stdout) standard output stream. Use the --inplace option to modify directly the source files referenced by the GIT diff. Optionally, combine --inplace with --verbose to print the changes to stdout:

fglgitformat --inplace --verbose

When specifying a commit such as HEAD~2, the tool reformats all changes relative to the commit, plus the changes staged for the next commit:

fglgitformat --inplace HEAD~2

When no commit is provided, fglgitformat only reformats the changes staged for the next commit (relative to the HEAD).

By default, all modified .4gl source files are processed. To reformat the changes in specific files, these can be provided as arguments:

fglgitformat --inplace common/sql_utils.4gl common/gui_utils.4gl

Tip: If the code modifications to be reformatted are part of the last commit, after reformatting with fglgitformat, consider using git commit --amend, to merge the reformatting with your last commit. Or, commit the reformatting as a separate commit, and reorganize the history with interactive rebase (git rebase -i).