Article on combatting source code formatting erosion #5
Description
Fighting code formatting erosion
*Commit hooks
- unit test style test
- IDE style plugin
- reformatting commits
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Reformatting makes "blaming" more difficult, since possibly several commits in the history graph mush be skipped in order to filter away re-formatting commits. It becomes much harder to know when a line was introduced when trying to understand why it's there