On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 6:26 PM David Jencks <david.a.jen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A possible data point… For a while I worked on isomorphic-git (javascript) > which had a pre-commit hook to format the code. It was rather surprising at > first, but I ended up really liking it, more than projects that attempted > to check the formatting during the build, which were susceptible to ways of > running the build that skipped the format check. > > David Jencks > > THIS ^ If this proposal gets "neutered" (point IS to reformat as part of build), we are getting where we are today. Just playing "ping-pong" with checkstyle, module1 fails, fix, commit, module2 fails, fix, commit, etc (naturally, all this as "worst scenario"). Am still not convinced: why NOT format during build? T
