I believe what's being described is on the fly (ie uncommited) reformatting to suit individual reading preferences. Additional enforced autoformatting at the ti

I believe what's being described is on the fly (ie uncommited) reformatting to suit individual reading preferences. Additional enforced autoformatting at the time of commit ensures that all version controlled code always conforms to the chosen style. Thus there are never any reformat commits unless the chosen style is modified.