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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion clang/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.rst
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Expand Up @@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ Configuring Style with clang-format
:program:`clang-format` supports two ways to provide custom style options:
directly specify style configuration in the ``-style=`` command line option or
use ``-style=file`` and put style configuration in the ``.clang-format`` or
``_clang-format`` file in the project directory.
``_clang-format`` file in the project directory. Note that ``--style=[file path]``
is invalid - ``file`` is instead a literal selecting behavior.

When using ``-style=file``, :program:`clang-format` for each input file will
try to find the ``.clang-format`` file located in the closest parent directory
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