This is the openrc style manual. It governs the coding style of all code in this repository. Follow it. Contact openrc@gentoo.org for any questions or fixes you might notice. ########## # C CODE # ########## The BSD Kernel Normal Form (KNF) style is used: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style#BSD_KNF_style Basically, it's like K&R/LKML, but wrapped lines that are indented use 4 spaces. Highlights: - no trailing whitespace - indented code use tabs (not line wrapped) - cuddle the braces (except for functions) - space after native statements and before paren (for/if/while/...) - no space between function and paren - pointer asterisk cuddles the variable, not the type void foo(int c) { int ret = 0; if (c > 1000) return; while (c--) { bar(c); ret++; } return ret; } ################## # COMMIT MESSAGES # ################## The following is an example of a correctly formatted git commit message for this repository. Most of this information came from this blog post [1], so I would like to thank the author. ### cut here ### Capitalized, short (50 chars or less) summary More detailed explanatory text, if necessary. Wrap it to about 72 characters or so. In some contexts, the first line is treated as the subject of an email and the rest of the text as the body. The blank line separating the summary from the body is critical (unless you omit the body entirely); tools like rebase can get confused if you run the two together. Write your commit message in the imperative: "Fix bug" and not "Fixed bug." This convention matches up with commit messages generated by commands like git merge and git revert. Further paragraphs come after blank lines. - Bullet points are okay, too - Typically a hyphen or asterisk is used for the bullet, preceded by a single space, with blank lines in between, but conventions vary here - Use a hanging indent Reported-by: User Name X-[Distro]-Bug: BugID X-[Distro]-Bug-URL: URL for the bug (on the distribution's web site typically) ### cut here ### If you did not write the code and the patch does not include authorship information in a format git can use, please use the --author option of the git commit command to make the authorship correct. The Reported-by tag is required if the person who reported the bug is different from the author and committer. The X-[Distro]-Bug/Bug-URL tags are required if this commit is related to a bug reported to us by a specific distribution of linux or a *BSD. Also, [Distro] should be replaced with the name of the distribution, e.g. X-Gentoo-Bug. [1] http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html