my true clang format guide. behold. (for C++ and clang-format 16+)

.clang-format

AccessModifierOffset: -4
AlignAfterOpenBracket: AlwaysBreak
AlignConsecutiveMacros: false
AlignConsecutiveAssignments: false
AlignConsecutiveDeclarations: false
AlignEscapedNewlines: DontAlign
AlignOperands: false
AlignTrailingComments: false
AllowAllArgumentsOnNextLine: false
AllowAllConstructorInitializersOnNextLine: false
AllowAllParametersOfDeclarationOnNextLine: false
AllowShortBlocksOnASingleLine: Empty
AllowShortCaseLabelsOnASingleLine: false
AllowShortFunctionsOnASingleLine: Empty
AllowShortIfStatementsOnASingleLine: Never
AllowShortLambdasOnASingleLine: All
AllowShortLoopsOnASingleLine: false
AlwaysBreakAfterReturnType: None
AlwaysBreakBeforeMultilineStrings: true
AlwaysBreakTemplateDeclarations: Yes
BinPackArguments: false
BinPackParameters: false
BreakBeforeBinaryOperators: NonAssignment
BreakBeforeBraces: Attach
BreakBeforeTernaryOperators: true
BreakConstructorInitializers: AfterColon
BreakInheritanceList: AfterColon
BreakStringLiterals: false
ColumnLimit: 80
CompactNamespaces: false
ConstructorInitializerAllOnOneLineOrOnePerLine: true
ConstructorInitializerIndentWidth: 4
ContinuationIndentWidth: 4
Cpp11BracedListStyle: true
DerivePointerAlignment: false
FixNamespaceComments: true
IncludeBlocks: Regroup
IncludeCategories:
  - Regex: '^<ext/.*\.h>'
    Priority: 2
    SortPriority: 0
    CaseSensitive: false
  - Regex: '^<.*\.h>'
    Priority: 1
    SortPriority: 0
    CaseSensitive: false
  - Regex: "^<.*"
    Priority: 2
    SortPriority: 0
    CaseSensitive: false
  - Regex: ".*"
    Priority: 3
    SortPriority: 0
    CaseSensitive: false
IncludeIsMainRegex: "([-_](test|unittest))?$"
IndentCaseLabels: true
IndentPPDirectives: BeforeHash
IndentWidth: 4
IndentWrappedFunctionNames: false
InsertBraces: True
KeepEmptyLinesAtTheStartOfBlocks: false
MaxEmptyLinesToKeep: 1
NamespaceIndentation: Inner
PointerAlignment: Left
ReferenceAlignment: Left
ReflowComments: false
SeparateDefinitionBlocks: Always
SortIncludes: true
SortUsingDeclarations: true
SpaceAfterCStyleCast: false
SpaceAfterLogicalNot: false
SpaceAfterTemplateKeyword: false
SpaceBeforeAssignmentOperators: true
SpaceBeforeCpp11BracedList: true
SpaceBeforeCtorInitializerColon: true
SpaceBeforeInheritanceColon: false
SpaceBeforeParens: ControlStatements
SpaceBeforeRangeBasedForLoopColon: true
SpaceInEmptyParentheses: false
SpacesBeforeTrailingComments: 2
SpacesInAngles: false
SpacesInCStyleCastParentheses: false
SpacesInContainerLiterals: false
SpacesInParentheses: false
SpacesInSquareBrackets: false
Standard: Cpp11
TabWidth: 4
UseTab: Never