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+# http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.html
+---
+Language:        Cpp
+AccessModifierOffset: 0
+AlignAfterOpenBracket: true
+AlignEscapedNewlinesLeft: false
+AlignOperands:   true
+AlignTrailingComments: true
+AllowAllParametersOfDeclarationOnNextLine: true
+AllowShortBlocksOnASingleLine: true
+AllowShortCaseLabelsOnASingleLine: false
+AllowShortFunctionsOnASingleLine: All
+AllowShortIfStatementsOnASingleLine: true
+AllowShortLoopsOnASingleLine: true
+AlwaysBreakAfterDefinitionReturnType: false
+AlwaysBreakBeforeMultilineStrings: false
+AlwaysBreakTemplateDeclarations: false
+BinPackArguments: true
+BinPackParameters: true
+BreakBeforeBinaryOperators: None
+BreakBeforeBraces: Linux
+BreakBeforeTernaryOperators: true
+BreakConstructorInitializersBeforeComma: false
+ColumnLimit:     120
+CommentPragmas:  '^ IWYU pragma:'
+ConstructorInitializerAllOnOneLineOrOnePerLine: false
+ConstructorInitializerIndentWidth: 4
+ContinuationIndentWidth: 4
+Cpp11BracedListStyle: true
+DerivePointerAlignment: false
+DisableFormat:   false
+ExperimentalAutoDetectBinPacking: false
+ForEachMacros:   [ foreach, Q_FOREACH, BOOST_FOREACH ]
+IndentCaseLabels: false
+IndentFunctionDeclarationAfterType: false
+IndentWidth:     4
+IndentWrappedFunctionNames: false
+KeepEmptyLinesAtTheStartOfBlocks: true
+MaxEmptyLinesToKeep: 1
+NamespaceIndentation: None
+PenaltyBreakBeforeFirstCallParameter: 19
+PenaltyBreakComment: 300
+PenaltyBreakFirstLessLess: 120
+PenaltyBreakString: 1000
+PenaltyExcessCharacter: 1000000
+PenaltyReturnTypeOnItsOwnLine: 60
+PointerAlignment: Right
+SpaceAfterCStyleCast: false
+SpaceBeforeAssignmentOperators: true
+SpaceBeforeParens: ControlStatements
+SpaceInEmptyParentheses: false
+SpacesBeforeTrailingComments: 1
+SpacesInAngles:  false
+SpacesInCStyleCastParentheses: false
+SpacesInContainerLiterals: true
+SpacesInParentheses: false
+SpacesInSquareBrackets: false
+Standard:        Cpp11
+TabWidth:        4
+UseTab:          Always
+...