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6118: Document Clippy strategy r=matklad a=matklad

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+# Clippy
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+We don't enforce Clippy.
+A number of default lints have high false positive rate.
+Selectively patching false-positives with `allow(clippy)` is considered worse than not using Clippy at all.
+There's `cargo xtask lint` command which runs a subset of low-FPR lints.
+Careful tweaking of `xtask lint` is welcome.
+See also [rust-lang/clippy#5537](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/5537).
+Of course, applying Clippy suggestions is welcome as long as they indeed improve the code.