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		pjmlp on Nov 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Refactoring with go fmt While go fmt is great tool, it is no different than integrating indent or similar tool in the source control system.

4ad on Nov 13, 2013 [–]

Indent(1) is a textual tool while gofmt does full syntactic analysis. Among other things, indent(1) can't refactor code.

pjmlp on Nov 13, 2013 | [–]

I just gave indent as a possible example, there are other tools.

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