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# Chapter 5 Source Tree Guidelines and Policies

Contributed by Poul-Henning Kamp and Giorgos Keramidas.

This chapter documents various guidelines and policies in force for the FreeBSD source tree.

# 5.1 Style Guidelines

Consistent coding style is extremely important, particularly with large projects like FreeBSD. Code should follow the FreeBSD coding styles described in style(9) and style.Makefile(5).

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