I realize the guideline says to use Google style formatting except for 4 space tabs, but this isn't actually the case. For example, Lines are not limited to 80 chars, include files are not always sorted, "private/public:" are at times not indented as in Google, etc. Does it make sense to put a .clang-format file in the source tree Visual Studio document formater can be used without fear of munging the code?

BasedOnStyle:  Google
IndentWidth:   4
ColumnLimit: 0
# AlignConsecutiveAssignments: true  # I like this, but I'm not sure you'd agree. It sometimes requires an extra blank line to make it pretty
# AlignConsecutiveDeclarations: true  # as above

SortIncludes: false
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