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Add README section on limitations and work-arounds
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akaihola committed Mar 27, 2024
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For details on how linting support works, see Graylint_ documentation.


Limitations and work-arounds
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Black doesn't support partial formatting natively.
Because of this, Darker lets Black reformat complete files.
Darker then accepts or rejects chunks of contiguous lines touched by Black,
depending on whether any of the lines in a chunk were edited or added
between the two revisions.

Due to the nature of this algorithm,
Darker is often unable to minimize the number of changes made by Black
as carefully as a developer could do by hand.
Also, depending on what kind of changes were made to the code,
diff results may lead to Darker applying reformatting in an invalid way.
Fortunately, Darker always checks that the result of reformatting
converts to the same AST as the original code.
If that's not the case, Darker expands the chunk until it finds a valid reformatting.
As a result, a much larger block of code may be reformatted than necessary.

The most reasonable work-around to these limitations
is to review the changes made by Darker before committing them to the repository
and unstaging any changes that are not desired.


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