though the point is that you should be formatting before committing ^^'

I agree with the theory, but I don’t think that’s a reasonable ask for occasional or first time contributors

How so? Formatting before committing is just a matter of "building" the

format

target, it's one command. I've also recently updated a bit the information about formatting. If it's a problem of the contributing guide being difficult to follow, I think it's worth improving it. As Alessandro said there are some technical challenges too with using

clang-format

directly, we would have to compile the same version of clang-format for all the platforms and provide that

I saw your update! We only god as far as we did because it it.