[troels]

Depends. Some programmers have absolutely no hygiene wrt formatting. You'd want that sorted for readability.

But the bigger point is that you reduce merge conflicts since you won't have all sorts of unrelated formatting changes mixed in with the real changes.

[ionforce]

> Some programmers have absolutely no hygiene wrt formatting.

I don't know how these kinds of people live with themselves or are tolerated by others. I hate it.