Please review our more detailed Coding Guidelines as well.
This project is set up for use with pre-commit. Using it will make your code conform with most of our (easily automatable) code style guidelines automatically. In very short (for anything further see pre-commit), after running the following in your working clone of alpaka
# if not yet done, install the pre-commit executable following https://pre-commit.com
cd /path/to/alpaka-working-clone
pre-commit installgit will run a number of checks prior to every commit and push and will refuse to perform the
pertinent action if they fail. Most of them (like e.g. the formatter) will have automatically altered your working tree
with the necessary changes such that
git add -uwill make the next commit pass.
Please format your code before opening pull requests using clang-format 20 and the .clang-format file placed in
the repository root. If you were using pre-commit during your changes, this has happened automatically already. If
not, find further instructions below.
Support for clang-format is built-in since Visual Studio 2017 15.7 and CLion 2019.1. The .clang-format file in the repository will be automatically detected and formatting is done as you type, or triggered when pressing the format hotkey.