Automating formatting for official D repos

[Basile B.]

On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 16:24:48 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> On 23/01/2024 4:14 AM, Prajwal S N wrote:
>> I came across this suggestion from Rikki in one of the other 
>> threads, and just wanna make sure I understand correctly - 
>> we'd ideally want a CI job that runs dfmt on the PR, and in 
>> case of any reformatting, it pushes a commit with those 
>> changes. Or are we just looking for a job that detects if 
>> there is something that's not formatted correctly? (I think we 
>> already have this? Not sure)
>
> Yes, we would commit the formatted code straight back.
>
> What we have now with the primitive formatting check is it 
> creates opportunity for the PR to fail the CI.
>
> With an automatic formatting tool, we can simply fix the code 
> and move on with our lives. No nitpicking, no asking how do I 
> fix this error, just ready to merge code!

You really want a bot to commit in the author branch ? Maybe you 
mean that this should be done as part of the merge process ? BTW 
authors have an option to prevent external modifications even if 
the "external agent" has the permissions to modify, e.g in the 
context of an organization.