[contrib] Prepare clang-format-diff for usage

2 files changed, 59 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/devtools/README.md b/contrib/devtools/README.md
index 240ab6d9e0..978f26b084 100644
--- a/contrib/devtools/README.md
+++ b/contrib/devtools/README.md
@@ -7,6 +7,18 @@ clang-format.py
 
 A script to format cpp source code according to [.clang-format](../../src/.clang-format). This should only be applied to new files or files which are currently not actively developed on. Also, git subtrees are not subject to formatting.
 
+clang-format-diff.py
+===================
+
+A script to format unified git diffs according to [.clang-format](../../src/.clang-format).
+
+For instance, to format the last commit with 0 lines of context,
+the script should be called from the git root folder as follows.
+
+```
+git diff -U0 HEAD~1.. | ./contrib/devtools/clang-format-diff.py -p1 -i -v
+```
+
 fix-copyright-headers.py
 ========================
 
diff --git a/contrib/devtools/clang-format-diff.py b/contrib/devtools/clang-format-diff.py
index 9e02bb0938..13d2573b9f 100755
--- a/contrib/devtools/clang-format-diff.py
+++ b/contrib/devtools/clang-format-diff.py
@@ -5,7 +5,52 @@
 #                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
 #
 # This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
-# License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
+# License.
+#
+#           ============================================================
+#
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+#
+# Copyright (c) 2007-2015 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
+# All rights reserved.
+#
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+#
+#     LLVM Team
+#
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+#
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+#
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+#       this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
+#       documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+#
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+#       Urbana-Champaign, nor the names of its contributors may be used to
+#       endorse or promote products derived from this Software without specific
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+#
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+#           ============================================================
 #
 #===------------------------------------------------------------------------===#
 
@@ -56,10 +101,6 @@ def main():
                       help='let clang-format sort include blocks')
   parser.add_argument('-v', '--verbose', action='store_true',
                       help='be more verbose, ineffective without -i')
-  parser.add_argument(
-      '-style',
-      help=
-      'formatting style to apply (LLVM, Google, Chromium, Mozilla, WebKit)')
   args = parser.parse_args()
 
   # Extract changed lines for each file.
@@ -101,8 +142,7 @@ def main():
     if args.sort_includes:
       command.append('-sort-includes')
     command.extend(lines)
-    if args.style:
-      command.extend(['-style', args.style])
+    command.extend(['-style=file', '-fallback-style=none'])
     p = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                          stderr=None, stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
     stdout, stderr = p.communicate()