proto file formatter

[ashi009]

Hi all,

Is there a proto file formatter somewhere?

If not, why there isn't one? It seems possible to create a working prototype from FileDescriptor.

[mikedanese]

clang-format supports formatting proto files. Google uses clang-format for this internally:

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html

[xuwei-k]

https://docs.buf.build/format/usage

[wirekang]

Since this issue is appearing as the second result in Google's search results, I leave the workaround here.

Old versions of clang-format does not format proto files propery in some cases. In many system, default version of clang-format is quite old one. In my case, ubuntu 22.04, I installed newer version of clang-format via apt install clang-foramt-15 and replace every clang-format command to clang-format-15 to solve the problems.