[jira] [Created] (ARROW-15248) [C++][Docs] Improve instructions for C++ formatting/linting

["David Li (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

David Li created ARROW-15248:
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             Summary: [C++][Docs] Improve instructions for C++ formatting/linting
                 Key: ARROW-15248
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15248
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: C++, Documentation
            Reporter: David Li


[Code Style, Linting, and CI|https://arrow.apache.org/docs/developers/cpp/development.html#code-style-linting-and-ci] could use the following:
 * clang-format is implicitly described, but should be made an explicit requirement.
 * We should describe how to format C++ code with archery.
 * We should describe how to format/lint C++ code with the CMake build.
 * We should describe how Archery discovers the clang-format/cpplint executables.
 * We should describe how to use the GitHub Actions bot to try to format code.



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