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Mention "local convention" rule in the CodingGuidelines

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The document suggests to imitate the existing code, but didn't
say which existing code it should imitate. This clarifies.

Signed-off-by: しらいしななこ <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Nanako Shiraishi 2009-01-26 17:32:22 +09:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -21,8 +21,13 @@ code. For git in general, three rough rules are:
As for more concrete guidelines, just imitate the existing code
(this is a good guideline, no matter which project you are
contributing to). But if you must have a list of rules,
here they are.
contributing to). It is always preferable to match the _local_
convention. New code added to git suite is expected to match
the overall style of existing code. Modifications to existing
code is expected to match the style the surrounding code already
uses (even if it doesn't match the overall style of existing code).
But if you must have a list of rules, here they are.
For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive):