April 3-9, 2022 in Darker: Enhancing Configuration and Improving Code Formatting

[akaihola]

This week, we focused on refining Darker's configuration options and improving code formatting capabilities. We addressed the issue of Darker's configuration in monorepo structures (#244) by exploring ways to revert changes to the --config argument handling or provide explicit configuration for the Darker config file path. This change aims to resolve unexpected behavior in complex repository layouts and will be included in the upcoming 1.5.0 release.

We made significant progress in enhancing code formatting by merging a pull request (#300) that treats multi-line docstrings as complete chunks during formatting. This change prevents "reformat loops" where docstrings are repeatedly indented and unindented, addressing a long-standing issue (#240). Additionally, we implemented a feature to apply isort only when changes overlap with user modifications (#238), resolving the problem of unnecessary import sorting (#72).

In other developments, we added support for the NO_COLOR environment variable (#356) to disable syntax highlighting, complementing the previously added PY_COLORS option. We also renamed the --jobs option to -W / --workers (#352) for consistency with Black. These improvements, along with various documentation updates and bug fixes, bring us closer to the 1.5.0 release.

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