I agree with this sentiment. If your policy is to keep all your code PEP8 (ideally by making it part of your test suite), then the amount of commit messages whi

I agree with this sentiment. If your policy is to keep all your code PEP8 (ideally by making it part of your test suite), then the amount of commit messages which are "PEP8-ify" will be pretty small. If you take a blatantly non-compliant codebase and PEP8-ify it, you'll have many "pep8" lines in your git blame for a point, but by integrating it in your process that will disappear pretty clean.