CodingGuidelines: mention C whitespace rules

We are fairly consistent about these, so most are covered by
"follow existing style", but it doesn't hurt to be explicit.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jeff King 2014-02-28 01:17:25 -05:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -126,6 +126,17 @@ For C programs:
"char * string". This makes it easier to understand code
like "char *string, c;".

- Use whitespace around operators and keywords, but not inside
parentheses and not around functions. So:

while (condition)
func(bar + 1);

and not:

while( condition )
func (bar+1);

- We avoid using braces unnecessarily. I.e.

if (bla) {