CodingGuidelines: allow the use of bool · freshlybakedca.ke/git@bfa405e

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CodingGuidelines: allow the use of bool

We have had a test balloon for C99's bool type since 8277dbe987
(git-compat-util: convert skip_{prefix,suffix}{,_mem} to bool,
2023-12-16). As we've had it over 18 months without any complaints
let's declare it a success.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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Junio C Hamano 8 months ago bfa405ea 16bd9f20

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··· 298 298 . since late 2021 with 44ba10d6, we have had variables declared in 299 299 the for loop "for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)". 300 300 301 + . since late 2023 with 8277dbe987 we have been using the bool type 302 + from <stdbool.h>. 303 + 301 304 New C99 features that we cannot use yet: 302 305 303 306 . %z and %zu as a printf() argument for a size_t (the %z being for