Coding Conventions

C

• Try to keep lines less than 80 characters long. This is a loose requirement, but going significantly over 80 columns is not nice;
• Indent with 4 spaces;
• Avoid trailing whitespace [1];
• Only commit Unix-style newlines[2].

Python

We use PEP8 coding conventions.

See python.org for a detailed instruction.

There are some options for automatically verifying PEP8 compliance before submitting your code:

• PyFlakes;
• Flake8;

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[1] When copying code from libgit2 the original indentation may be kept.

[2] this means no CRLF in the repository - just set core.autocrlf to true if you are writing code on a Windows machine.