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+---
+# This configuration requires clang-format 3.8 or higher.
+BasedOnStyle: Mozilla
+AlignOperands: false
+AlwaysBreakAfterReturnType: None
+AlwaysBreakAfterDefinitionReturnType: None
+ColumnLimit: 79
+Standard: Cpp03
+...