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Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
The contrib/vscode/init.sh script creates configuration files that enable several valuable VS Code features. See contrib/vscode/README.md for more information on using the script.
Emacs
This is adapted from Linux’s suggestion in its CodingStyle document:
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To follow the rules in CodingGuidelines, it’s useful to put the following in GIT_CHECKOUT/.dir-locals.el, assuming you use cperl-mode: 
;; note the first part is useful for C editing, too
((nil . ((indent-tabs-mode . t)
         (tab-width . 8)
         (fill-column . 80)))
         (cperl-mode . ((cperl-indent-level . 8)
                        (cperl-extra-newline-before-brace . nil)
                        (cperl-merge-trailing-else . t))))
For a more complete setup, since Git’s codebase uses a coding style similar to the Linux kernel’s style, tips given in Linux’s CodingStyle document can be applied here too.