diff --git a/.clang-format b/.clang-format
index 335c7d846..3a7e87a91 100644
--- a/.clang-format
+++ b/.clang-format
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ BreakBeforeBraces: Allman
 BinPackArguments: false
 BinPackParameters: false
 ColumnLimit: 100
+MaxEmptyLinesToKeep: 4
 Standard: Cpp11
 # This requires clang-format 4.0 (at least).
 #FixNamespaceComments: true