References to google-styleguide in formatter documentation

Problem

The official documentation page about linting has a section about formatting which includes a link to the unmaintened/abandoned google/styleguide repo which might be misleading to some unfamiliar with the differences between google/styleguide and google-java-format.

A bit more explanation

The project, I currently work on uses the Intellij google-java-format plugin (like almost any other project, I have worked on in the past 6+ years). I know that the section above links to google/styleguide repo, which is not the same as google/google-java-format repo. Not being overly familiar with the repos, I thought that the formatting output should be the same (or at least very similiar), especially, because the offical documentation links to it.

After spending a few hours trying to get a working solution, it seems to me, that the google/styleguide java style is abandoned (last updated 5 years ago), without an offical statement. I found this issue which funnily enough also mentions the vscode-java docs.

The formatting output is very different. Here is a small example:

google/styleguide:

google/google-java-format:

Suggestion

Can the reference to the google styleguide be removed? I think it would be bad idea to just mention that the formatter is unmaintained, because people don't read carefully enough, instead just copy the configuration.

I know the referenced documentation is not part of this repo, but I (as somebody unaffiliated with vscode-java) didn't want to open an issue on the vscode repo straight away.

google-java-format Solution

This stackoverflow question lists different solutions.

There are a lot of plugins that are floating around (mostly forks of one plugin) where I tried a few, but none worked: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?term=google%20java%20format&target=VSCode&category=All%20categories&sortBy=Relevance

Beginne mit der Überprüfung des im Issue verlinkten Abschnitts der Dokumentation zum Java-Linting und vergleiche dessen Referenz auf google/styleguide mit google/google-java-format. Als erledigt gilt die Entfernung oder Korrektur der irreführenden Referenz in der Dokumentation. Das Issue nennt jedoch keine Datei in diesem Repository und zeigt nicht, wo diese externe Seite gepflegt wird.