CLANG-APPLY-REPLACEMENTS(1)

💖 NAME 💖

clang-apply-replacements — bestie, it's the manual page for clang-apply-replacements 20, and yes we are reading the whole thing together, no skimming ✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so, here's the whole vibe:

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

OPTIONS: are giving main character energy, so let's go 👑

🎀 Formatting Options 🎀

• --format — turns on formatting for any code that got changed by applying replacements. and like, if you wanna pick how it formats, you use -style for that 💅
• --style=<string> — sets the coding style, and <string> can be any of these four things, no cap:
  1. a preset, and the presets are: LLVM, GNU, Google, Chromium, Microsoft, Mozilla, WebKit.
  2. 'file' — this loads the style config straight out of a .clang-format file sitting in one of the parent directories of the source file (and for stdin, check --assume-filename btw). if there's literally no .clang-format file to be found anywhere, it falls back to --fallback-style. also important: --style=file is the default, periodt.
  3. 'file:<format_file_path>' — this one lets you point at the config file explicitly, like you're naming names 🫶
  4. "{key: value, ...}" — set specific parameters yourself, for example:

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

• --style-config=<string> — a path to a directory that contains a .clang-format file, and that file describes the formatting style to use for formatting code when you're running with -style=file. iykyk 💜

✨ Generic Options ✨

• --help — shows you the available options (and if you want even more, there's --help-hidden 👀)
• --help-list — shows you the list of available options (and again, --help-list-hidden for more)
• --version — displays the version of this program ⭐

🦋 Replacement Options 🦋

• --ignore-insert-conflict — ignores the insert conflict and just keeps running so it can fix stuff. literally refusing to let the drama stop her 😭
• --remove-change-desc-files — removes the change description files regardless of whether the merging/replacing actually succeeded. yes, regardless. she does not check first 💀

ngl bestie, that last one is doing the most — it deletes those files no matter what went down, so know that going in.

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and that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this was clang-apply-replacements version 20, documented back in September 2026, from the CLANG-APPLY-REPLACEMENTS(1) era of the manual — stay iconic, go fix some code, and don't forget the <Search Root Directory> 🎀✨