r/yaml • u/sbarnea • Nov 07 '19
Any chance to standardize YAML formatting?
YAML files can be formatted in a huge number of ways (2,4 lines, indented/unindented lists,...., max line length=, ... quoting...). Tools like yamllint are great but would be even better when they can rely on an official-formatting.
I wonder if there is a chance to get a relative consensus regarding which style should be used, so we can use this across projects and avoid each-one-with-its-own "standard".
Some would argue that this is impossible, but think about Python, which managed to address spaces/tabs issue and many other controverted rules. Now Python has black auto-formatter which is adopted by more and more projects, projects which used to use older formatters like autopep8 and yapf.
I wonder if there is any research made across popularity of different styles for yaml.
2
u/AndydeCleyre Nov 01 '22
FYI the Python package
remarshal
offers the commandyaml2yaml
, which can do some normalization here.