tensorflow/quantum

Unpin clang-format version

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#1,084 opened on Jun 5, 2026

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Description

At some point in the recent past, we pinned the version of clang-format to version 18 in the requirements files. However, it looks like this is unnecessary; running a more recent version of clang-format like 22 does not produce any changes to formatting. We should unpin the version in requirements.in if we can.

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Check if the latest clang format version produces no formatting changes by running it on the codebase. If successful, remove the version pin from requirements.in.
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python
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tooling
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Pythonclang format
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