Mishnah Berurah — משנה ברורה

He makes a hole - The Beit Yosef wrote that even though there are some who say that you should make two holes like [the form of] a tzeirei (ie. the vowel that looks like ".."), and insert the ציצית in them (ie. into one of the holes) and [then] remove them (ie. from the other hole) out to one side, we do not observe that. And one who wants to be stringent on himself [to do like that] or similar, is not [considered to be] from the "stringent ones", rather from the "puzzled/confused ones", for it it appears as haughtiness... till here are his (the Beit Yosef) words. And the Ba"ch wrote that [regarding] a tallit katan, one should make two holes because there it does not appear as haughtiness since it's not seen by all. And so too is written in the Kavanot, that the Ari"zal did this [However in Birkei Yosef, he wrote that R. Shmuel Vital testified that his father, R. Chaim Vital, did not do this]. And this custom has become widespread in the land of Poland. However, in the land of Hungary and Germany, this is not the custom. And "each river and its unique course" (ie. each place follows its custom).