Symbolic links are disabled by default in the Git for Windows installer, so on Windows the file does not work as intended.
Furthermore, even if the symbolic link are enabled, the git symbolic links on Windows are not correctly processed, and create spurious changes in the Git repo even if it is not modified (see https://github.com/robotology/robotology-superbuild/issues/429).
To avoid these class of problems, we just copy the root .clang-format in example/.clang-format .
Symbolic links are disabled by default in the Git for Windows installer, so on Windows the file does not work as intended.
Furthermore, even if the symbolic link are enabled, the git symbolic links on Windows are not correctly processed, and create spurious changes in the Git repo even if it is not modified (see https://github.com/robotology/robotology-superbuild/issues/429).
To avoid these class of problems, we just copy the root
.clang-formatinexample/.clang-format.