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#### Installing rustfmt
-You can run `rustfmt` with Rust 1.24 and above.
+You must install a very recent version of `rustfmt` through rust nightly
To install:
```
-rustup component add rustfmt
+rustup toolchain install nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
+rustup component add rustfmt --toolchain nightly
```
#### Usage
@@ -21,14 +22,24 @@ rustup component add rustfmt
To run on Diplonat, launch the following in the root directory:
```
-cargo fmt --all
+cargo +nightly fmt
```
-This will format the whole repository using the settigs defined in [`.rustfmt.toml`](./.rustfmt.toml): soft tabs of 2 spaces.
+This will format the whole repository using the settigs defined in [`.rustfmt.toml`](./.rustfmt.toml).
#### Auto-format code
You can automate formatting in a number of ways:
-* [Setup your IDE to use `rustfmt`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt#running-rustfmt-from-your-editor).
-* Setup a git hook to run `rustfmt` before each commit.
+[Setup your IDE to use `rustfmt`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt#running-rustfmt-from-your-editor).
+
+Setup a git hook to run `rustfmt` before each commit:
+
+```bash
+cat <<EOF > .git/hooks/pre-commit
+#!/bin/bash
+
+cargo +nightly fmt
+EOF
+chmod +x .git/hooks/pre-commit
+```