Update documentation for clang-format
#2907
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This PR updates the Sming coding style documentation as discussed in #2898 (comment) and #2904 (comment).
Sming requires version 8 which is generally no longer available in the standard repositories for recent GNU/Linux distributions. Different versions of clang-format produce different output with the same configuration. This is such a common problem that a kind soul has provided standalone builds here https://github.com/muttleyxd/clang-tools-static-binaries/releases.
The default name of the clang-format executable has been changed to
clang-format-8
. This is becauseclang-format
is now very unlikely to be the default installed version, and so avoids the subtle issues with running the wrong version.