This flag is a setting that changes the behaviour of nmcli, it's not
only the current state of the program, so it makes more sense to put it
in NmcConfig than in NmCli.
Furthermore, it's needed to fix a bug in next commit, too.
The main purpose is to simplify printf debugging and manual testing. We
can now trivially patch the code so that all output from nmcli gets
(additionally) written to a file. That is useful when debugging a unit
test in "test-client.py". Thereby we can duplicate all messages via
nm_utils_print(), which is in sync with the debug messages from libnm
and which honors LIBNM_CLIENT_DEBUG_FILE.
(cherry picked from commit b32e4c941a)
nmc_print() will be used for something else. Rename. Also,
nmc_print_table() is the better name anyway because the function does a
lot of formatting and not simple printf().
(cherry picked from commit 4b2ded7a4a)
We use clang-format for automatic formatting of our source files.
Since clang-format is actively maintained software, the actual
formatting depends on the used version of clang-format. That is
unfortunate and painful, but really unavoidable unless clang-format
would be strictly bug-compatible.
So the version that we must use is from the current Fedora release, which
is also tested by our gitlab-ci. Previously, we were using Fedora 34 with
clang-tools-extra-12.0.1-1.fc34.x86_64.
As Fedora 35 comes along, we need to update our formatting as Fedora 35
comes with version "13.0.0~rc1-1.fc35".
An alternative would be to freeze on version 12, but that has different
problems (like, it's cumbersome to rebuild clang 12 on Fedora 35 and it
would be cumbersome for our developers which are on Fedora 35 to use a
clang that they cannot easily install).
The (differently painful) solution is to reformat from time to time, as we
switch to a new Fedora (and thus clang) version.
Usually we would expect that such a reformatting brings minor changes.
But this time, the changes are huge. That is mentioned in the release
notes [1] as
Makes PointerAligment: Right working with AlignConsecutiveDeclarations. (Fixes https://llvm.org/PR27353)
[1] https://releases.llvm.org/13.0.0/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#clang-format