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Its bad enough when tools change whitespace without my knowledge (unless this is an option I enabled), I sure don't want them changing anything else.

• catlifeonmars 6y ago
  Why is this bad? As someone who has spent a lot of time writing code with auto formatting turned on, I’m genuinely curious which parts of your workflow break when the whitespace changes out from under you.
  • xondono 6y ago
    Most of the pain from this comes from python repos with multiple developers (on different OS) pushing code. Using indentation for control flow was a bad decision, even if most modern IDEs now have good solutions for it.
  • mook 6y ago
    I tried Atom for ten minutes and then gave up on it because it made undesirable whitespace changes by default. Doing code formatting is fine; doing code formatting on lines from a checkout that I didn't change is bad. Yes, the file should be reformatted. But let me know before doing it, so I can make a formatting-only commit so it's easier to review when I put up the PR.
  • jpindar 6y ago
    When I'm working on new code, sure, I'll enable it, but other times when working on existing code I just want to make the minimum changes necessary. For example if I'm explaining to someone why their code doesn't work when I try it and what little change would help, sending them their code with dozens of irrelevant changes in addition to the relevant one isn't going to help my case.