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+---
+Language:        Cpp
+# BasedOnStyle:  LLVM
+AccessModifierOffset: -4
+AlignAfterOpenBracket: AlwaysBreak
+AlignConsecutiveAssignments: false
+AlignConsecutiveDeclarations: false
+AlignEscapedNewlines: Right
+AlignOperands:   true
+AlignTrailingComments: true
+# AllowAllArgumentsOnNextLine: true
+AllowAllParametersOfDeclarationOnNextLine: true
+# AllowAllConstructorInitializersOnNextLine: true
+AllowShortBlocksOnASingleLine: true
+AllowShortCaseLabelsOnASingleLine: true
+AllowShortFunctionsOnASingleLine: None
+AllowShortIfStatementsOnASingleLine: false
+AllowShortLoopsOnASingleLine: false
+# AllowShortLambdasOnASingleLine: true
+AlwaysBreakAfterDefinitionReturnType: None
+AlwaysBreakAfterReturnType: None
+AlwaysBreakBeforeMultilineStrings: true
+AlwaysBreakTemplateDeclarations: MultiLine
+BinPackArguments: true
+BinPackParameters: false
+BraceWrapping:   
+  AfterClass:      true
+  AfterControlStatement: true
+  AfterEnum:       true
+  AfterFunction:   true
+  AfterNamespace:  true
+  AfterObjCDeclaration: true
+  AfterStruct:     true
+  AfterUnion:      true
+  AfterExternBlock: true
+  BeforeCatch:     true
+  BeforeElse:      true
+  IndentBraces:    false
+  SplitEmptyFunction: false
+  SplitEmptyRecord: false
+  SplitEmptyNamespace: false
+BreakBeforeBinaryOperators: None
+BreakBeforeBraces: Custom
+BreakBeforeInheritanceComma: false
+BreakInheritanceList: BeforeColon
+BreakBeforeTernaryOperators: true
+BreakConstructorInitializersBeforeComma: true
+BreakConstructorInitializers: BeforeComma
+BreakAfterJavaFieldAnnotations: false
+BreakStringLiterals: false
+ColumnLimit:     80
+CommentPragmas:  '^ IWYU pragma:'
+CompactNamespaces: false
+ConstructorInitializerAllOnOneLineOrOnePerLine: true
+ConstructorInitializerIndentWidth: 4
+ContinuationIndentWidth: 4
+Cpp11BracedListStyle: false
+DerivePointerAlignment: false
+DisableFormat:   false
+ExperimentalAutoDetectBinPacking: false
+FixNamespaceComments: true
+ForEachMacros:   
+  - foreach
+  - Q_FOREACH
+  - BOOST_FOREACH
+IncludeBlocks:   Preserve
+IncludeCategories: 
+  - Regex:           '^"(llvm|llvm-c|clang|clang-c)/'
+    Priority:        2
+  - Regex:           '^(<|"(gtest|gmock|isl|json)/)'
+    Priority:        3
+  - Regex:           '.*'
+    Priority:        1
+IncludeIsMainRegex: '(Test|_test)?$'
+IndentCaseLabels: true
+IndentPPDirectives: AfterHash
+IndentWidth:     4
+IndentWrappedFunctionNames: false
+JavaScriptQuotes: Leave
+JavaScriptWrapImports: true
+KeepEmptyLinesAtTheStartOfBlocks: true
+MacroBlockBegin: ''
+MacroBlockEnd:   ''
+MaxEmptyLinesToKeep: 1
+NamespaceIndentation: None
+ObjCBinPackProtocolList: Auto
+ObjCBlockIndentWidth: 4
+ObjCSpaceAfterProperty: true
+ObjCSpaceBeforeProtocolList: true
+PenaltyBreakAssignment: 4
+PenaltyBreakBeforeFirstCallParameter: 8
+PenaltyBreakComment: 300
+PenaltyBreakFirstLessLess: 120
+PenaltyBreakString: 1000
+PenaltyBreakTemplateDeclaration: 10
+PenaltyExcessCharacter: 1000000
+PenaltyReturnTypeOnItsOwnLine: 20
+PointerAlignment: Right
+ReflowComments:  false
+SortIncludes:    true
+SortUsingDeclarations: true
+SpaceAfterCStyleCast: false
+SpaceAfterTemplateKeyword: true
+SpaceBeforeAssignmentOperators: true
+SpaceBeforeCpp11BracedList: false
+SpaceBeforeCtorInitializerColon: true
+SpaceBeforeInheritanceColon: true
+SpaceBeforeParens: Always
+SpaceBeforeRangeBasedForLoopColon: false
+SpaceInEmptyParentheses: false
+SpacesBeforeTrailingComments: 1
+SpacesInAngles:  true
+SpacesInContainerLiterals: true
+SpacesInCStyleCastParentheses: false
+SpacesInParentheses: true
+SpacesInSquareBrackets: false
+Standard:        Cpp11
+TabWidth:        8
+UseTab:          Never
+...