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+# Initially made using
+# clang-format -style=llvm -dump-config > .clang-format
+# Then lines were modified to get the desired results
+#
+# Incorporate these options by adding the flag -style=file
+# and putting this file in the directory of the file being formatted or
+# one of its parent directories
+#
+# See http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html for usage and
+# http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.html for options
+#
+---
+Language:        Cpp
+# BasedOnStyle:  LLVM
+AccessModifierOffset:   0
+AlignAfterOpenBracket:  DontAlign
+AlignConsecutiveAssignments: false
+AlignConsecutiveDeclarations: false
+AlignEscapedNewlinesLeft: false
+AlignOperands: false
+AlignTrailingComments: false
+AllowAllParametersOfDeclarationOnNextLine: false
+AllowShortBlocksOnASingleLine: false
+AllowShortCaseLabelsOnASingleLine: false
+AllowShortFunctionsOnASingleLine: None
+AllowShortIfStatementsOnASingleLine: false
+AllowShortLoopsOnASingleLine: false
+AlwaysBreakAfterDefinitionReturnType: None
+AlwaysBreakAfterReturnType: None
+AlwaysBreakBeforeMultilineStrings: false
+AlwaysBreakTemplateDeclarations: false
+BinPackArguments: true
+BinPackParameters: true
+BreakBeforeBraces: Custom
+BraceWrapping: 
+  AfterClass:      false
+  AfterControlStatement: false
+  AfterEnum:       false
+  AfterFunction:   true
+  AfterNamespace:  false
+  AfterObjCDeclaration: false
+  AfterStruct:     false
+  AfterUnion:      false
+  BeforeCatch:     false
+  BeforeElse:      true
+  IndentBraces:    false
+BreakAfterJavaFieldAnnotations: false
+BreakBeforeBinaryOperators: None
+BreakBeforeBraces: Custom
+BreakBeforeTernaryOperators: false
+BreakConstructorInitializersBeforeComma: false
+BreakStringLiterals: true
+ColumnLimit:     78
+CommentPragmas:  '^ IWYU pragma:' # not sure what this should be
+ConstructorInitializerAllOnOneLineOrOnePerLine: false
+ConstructorInitializerIndentWidth: 4
+ContinuationIndentWidth: 8
+Cpp11BracedListStyle: true
+DerivePointerAlignment: false
+DisableFormat:   false
+ExperimentalAutoDetectBinPacking: false
+ForEachMacros:   [ foreach, Q_FOREACH, BOOST_FOREACH ]
+IncludeCategories: # need to consider more
+  - Regex:           '^"(llvm|llvm-c|clang|clang-c)/'
+    Priority:        2
+  - Regex:           '^(<|"(gtest|isl|json)/)'
+    Priority:        3
+  - Regex:           '.*'
+    Priority:        1
+IncludeIsMainRegex: '$'
+IndentCaseLabels: true
+IndentWidth:     4
+IndentWrappedFunctionNames: false
+JavaScriptQuotes: Leave
+JavaScriptWrapImports: true
+KeepEmptyLinesAtTheStartOfBlocks: true
+MacroBlockBegin: ''
+MacroBlockEnd:   ''
+MaxEmptyLinesToKeep: 4
+NamespaceIndentation: None
+ObjCBlockIndentWidth: 2 # Not applicable (N/A)
+ObjCSpaceAfterProperty: false # N/A
+ObjCSpaceBeforeProtocolList: true # N/A
+PenaltyBreakBeforeFirstCallParameter: 19    #      19 was the original value
+PenaltyBreakComment: 300                    #     300 was the original value
+PenaltyBreakFirstLessLess: 120              #     120 was the original value
+PenaltyBreakString: 1000                    #    1000 was the original value
+PenaltyExcessCharacter: 10000000            # 1000000 was the original value
+PenaltyReturnTypeOnItsOwnLine: 60           #      60 was the original value
+PointerAlignment: Right
+ReflowComments:  true
+SortIncludes:    true
+SpaceAfterCStyleCast: true
+SpaceBeforeAssignmentOperators: true
+SpaceBeforeParens: ControlStatements
+SpaceInEmptyParentheses: false
+SpacesBeforeTrailingComments: 1
+SpacesInAngles:  false
+SpacesInContainerLiterals: true # N/A
+SpacesInCStyleCastParentheses: false
+SpacesInParentheses: false
+SpacesInSquareBrackets: false
+Standard:        Cpp11
+TabWidth:        8 # N/A since not using tabs
+UseTab:          Never
+# ... generated by the command here. Not sure why
+