[thrwyexecbrain]

I would absolutely not recommend auto-formatting a legacy codebase. In my experience large C++ projects tend to have not only code generation scripts (python/perl/whatever) but also scripts that parse the code (usually to gather data for code generation). Auto formatting might break that. I have even seen some really cursed projects where the _users_ parsed public header files with rather fragile scripts.

[Jtsummers]

I was listing the items in the original article's #3 and saying I'd move them up to #2 before I'd go about excising portions of the project, the original #2. I still stand by that. But you can read my other comment where I don't really defend auto-formatting to see that I don't care either way. I made it about four hours ago so maybe you missed it if you didn't refresh the page in the last few hours.