CONTRIBUTING: Add a section on coding style

Document that we now define our coding style with `clang-format`.
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``git format-patch`` to produce patches suitable to post to ``git format-patch`` to produce patches suitable to post to
the mailing list. the mailing list.
Code Style
==========
We use `clang-format`_ to define our style for C++ code in the CMake source
tree. See the `.clang-format`_ configuration file for our style settings.
Use ``clang-format`` version 3.8 or higher to format source files.
.. _`clang-format`: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html
.. _`.clang-format`: .clang-format
License License
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