Gauging changes¶
A lot of the time, your change will affect formatting and/or performance. Quantifying these changes is hard, so we have tooling to help make it easier.
It’s recommended you evaluate the quantifiable changes your Black formatting modification causes before submitting a PR. Think about if the change seems disruptive enough to cause frustration to projects that are already “black formatted”.
black-primer¶
black-primer
is a tool built for CI (and humans) to have Black --check
a number of
Git accessible projects in parallel. (configured in primer.json
) (A PR will be
accepted to add Mercurial support.)
Run flow¶
Ensure we have a
black
+git
in PATHLoad projects from
primer.json
Run projects in parallel with
--worker
workers (defaults to CPU count / 2)Checkout projects
Run black and record result
Clean up repository checkout (can optionally be disabled via
--keep
)
Display results summary to screen
Default to cleaning up
--work-dir
(which defaults to tempfile schemantics)Return
0 for successful run
< 0 for environment / internal error
> 0 for each project with an error
Speed up runs 🏎¶
If you’re running locally yourself to test black on lots of code try:
Using
-k
/--keep
+-w
/--work-dir
so you don’t have to re-checkout the repo each run