check_format script fails to run

[ghost]

I faced an issue with check_format script.

It gives the following error:

Running clang-format-3.8 against branch develop, with hash 2e6dc14
git: 'clang-format-3.8' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

I found a workaround by modifying script as follows:

- RESULT_OUTPUT="$(git clang-format-3.8 --commit $BASE_COMMIT --diff --binary which clang-format-3.8 $LIST)"
+ RESULT_OUTPUT="$(git clang-format --commit $BASE_COMMIT --diff --binary which clang-format-3.8 $LIST)"

After this, style check passes.
Has anyone faced this issue? How to fix this without modifying the script?

My system: arch-linux, installed clang from source.

[geektoni]

This error is likely to be caused by not having installed the package clang-format-3.8 in your system as advised here. Clang alone is not enough to make check_format.sh work.