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What? How would it? Do you understand what is meant by that?

The problem being referred to here is that a change on one line causes changes to unrelated lines. It makes it harder to pinpoint which line was changed intentionally in a diff and which ones were just caused by tab issues.



Err, yes, been coding for a while :D

If you format before every commit, then the only changes you get are the changes you made.


Doesn't help if you squash changes before merging, which is typical for large codebases


Again, this makes absolutely no sense to me. I've never experienced any of the problems you're facing and I can't imagine how they'd even cause problems.


It's not clear why you're still defending this position. Feels like you made a not well considered, off the cuff remark about something. Rather than realize you were wrong and take the L, you're still doubling down? Is it that important to you?




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