From 55aece23c66e09e72747eb570a3e514bb01b5063 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rr- <dash@wind.garden>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:12:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docs: update style guidelines

---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 0d05d8e2f..489b7bc0a 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -62,6 +62,29 @@ Try to avoid global variables, if possible declare them as `static` in the
 module you're using them. Changes to original game functionality most often
 should be configurable.
 
+Other things:
+
+- We use clang-format to automatically format the code
+- We do not omit `{` and `}`
+- We use K&R brace style
+- We condense `if` expressions into one, so:
+    ```
+    if (a && b) {
+    }
+    ```
+
+    and not:
+
+    ```
+    if (a) {
+        if (b) {
+        }
+    }
+    ```
+
+    If the expressions are extraordinarily complex, we refactor these into
+    smaller conditions or functions.
+
 ## Code formatting
 
 This project uses `clang-format` to take care of automatic code formatting. To