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Add editorconfig

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Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Read the issue and the linked editorconfig.org overview, then inspect the repository’s existing root-level configuration files to determine where the new configuration belongs. Done means the repository includes an EditorConfig file that establishes consistent coding-style settings without changing source code.

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Description

editorconfig is a configuration file adopted by many editors to ensure consistent coding style, which can avoid many diff results when we do git merge.

Dominant language
C++
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Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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