This project continues the work of cpplint, a C++ style checker following Google's C++ style guide. It provides cpplint as a PyPI package and adds a few features and fixes. It is maintained as a fork of google/styleguide in hopes that it can be merged in the future.

To install cpplint from PyPI, run:

$ pip install cpplint

Then run it with:

$ cpplint [OPTIONS] files

For full usage instructions, run:

$ cpplint --help

The modifications in this branch are minor fixes and cosmetic changes:

• more default extensions
• python 3 compatibility
• customizable file extensions with the --extensions and --headers arguments
• continuous integration on travis
• support for recursive file discovery via the --recursive argument
• support for excluding files via --exclude
• JUnit XML output format
• Overriding repository root auto-detection via --repository
• Support #pragma once as an alternative to header include guards
• Add quiet option to suppress non error-related output

To release a new version:

vi setup.py # increment the version
vi changelog.rst # log changes
git add setup.py changelog.rst
git commit -m "Releasing 0.0.6"
git tag 0.0.6
git push
git push --tags
python setup.py sdist register -r pypi
python setup.py sdist upload -r pypi

To incorporate google's changes:

git fetch google gh-pages
git checkout -b updates FETCH_HEAD
git rebase master
git push -u origin updates
# check travis
git push origin --delete updates

git rebase updates master
git branch -D updates
git push

Thanks to tkruse for putting cpplint on PyPI and maintaining the PyPI version for many years!