On: Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2011

[yegle]

There are 3 tools that that makes maintaining BUILD files enjoyable: buildifier, buildozer and build_cleaner (internal only unfortunately).

[lopkeny12ko → yegle]

What is build_cleaner?

[randomifcpfan → lopkeny12ko]

A tool for updating bazel build target dependencies. It inspects build files and source code, then adds/removes dependencies from build targets as needed. It requires using global include paths in C/C++ sources. It is not perfect, but it is pretty nice!

[rsc → randomifcpfan]

If you're using Go with Bazel, gazelle is available outside Google: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-gazelle

Enabling tools like these was exactly the point of the enforced formatting. It worked extremely well.

[dijit → rsc]

I should add that it seems Gazelle is being expanded to other programming languages other than Go.

For example: https://github.com/Calsign/gazelle_rust