From 36896a27b1247e53d7293eff0422089786365d2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 10:09:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docs: specifically mention that braces in if blocks do not
 need to be symmetric

The claude bot keeps getting this wrong again and again:

  Claude: nit: systemd coding style requires braces on both branches of
               an if/else when one branch uses them. Here the if branch
               is a single statement without braces but the else branch
               uses braces

Specifically mention this is not the case in the coding style doc
to hopefully make it stop hallucinating this rule
---
 docs/CODING_STYLE.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/CODING_STYLE.md b/docs/CODING_STYLE.md
index d6580bbbec..51551962f5 100644
--- a/docs/CODING_STYLE.md
+++ b/docs/CODING_STYLE.md
@@ -94,6 +94,28 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
   }
   ```
 
+- Braces in `if` blocks are not required to be symmetric. Write this:
+
+  ```c
+  if (foobar)
+          waldo();
+  else {
+          foo();
+          bar();
+  }
+  ```
+
+  instead of this:
+
+  ```c
+  if (foobar) {
+          waldo();
+  } else {
+          foo();
+          bar();
+  }
+  ```
+
 - Do not write `foo ()`, write `foo()`.
 
 - `else` blocks should generally start on the same line as the closing `}`: