CLANG-APPLY-REPLACEMENTS(1)

💖 clang-apply-replacements — NAME ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for clang-apply-replacements 19 and honestly? it's giving "quiet little tool that does SO much". let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

here's the whole vibe, exactly as it comes:

USAGE: clang-apply-replacements [options] <Search Root Directory>

that <Search Root Directory>? yeah, that's the main character. it's where she goes looking for stuff to fix. and [options] is all the lil knobs and switches you get to play with 👑

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

🎀 Formatting Options

• --format — turns ON formatting for code that got changed by applying replacements. so if you want your freshly-replaced code to also be pretty, this is your girl. heads up though: use -style to actually choose which formatting style you want 💅
• --style=<string> — sets the coding style. and <string> can be one of these four things, no cap:
  1. a preset, and the presets are: LLVM, GNU, Google, Chromium, Microsoft, Mozilla, WebKit. pick your fighter ✨
  2. 'file' — this one loads the style config from a .clang-format file sitting in one of the parent directories of the source file (and for stdin, see --assume-filename). if it can't find a .clang-format file at all, it falls back to --fallback-style. also FYI, --style=file is the default, so if you don't say anything, that's what you get 🦋
  3. 'file:<format_file_path>' — when you wanna be extra specific and point directly at the config file yourself.
  4. "{key: value, ...}" — for setting specific parameters inline, like literally this:

--style="{BasedOnStyle: llvm, IndentWidth: 8}"

custom everything, we love to see it 💜

• --style-config=<string> — path to a directory that contains a .clang-format file, which describes a formatting style to use when you're formatting code and you've got -style=file going. think of it as "where do I even find the vibe file" 🧚

🌈 Generic Options

• --help — displays the available options. and if you want even MORE (greedy, iconic), there's --help-hidden 👑
• --help-list — displays a list of the available options. and yes, there's a --help-list-hidden for more, because of course there is 💀
• --version — displays the version of this program. short, sweet, does exactly what it says on the tin ⭐

🍓 Replacement Options

• --ignore-insert-conflict — ignores an insert conflict and just keeps running so it can fix. she does NOT have time for drama, she's moving on 💅
• --remove-change-desc-files — removes the change description files, and it does this regardless of successful merging/replacing. so yeah, no matter how the merge or replace went, those files are GONE. periodt 🔥

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okay a lil gentle reminder bestie: that --remove-change-desc-files one means what it means — it doesn't care if the merging or replacing actually worked out. files get removed either way, so don't come for me later 🙈

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and that's the whole page, you ate it 💖 this was clang-apply-replacements 19, dated June 2025, from the User Commands corner of the world. go forth and replace some things, bestie 🎀🦋✨