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There's workarounds that others have mentioned, but indeed, the unfortunate side-effect of deciding to apply a formatter is a 'formatting' commit, causing a lot of code churn and issues if naively using git blame.

But, it's a "rip the plaster off" kinda thing, because it should ensure a lot less churn, inconsistent code style, or arguments and reviews about formatting after this is merged. It frees up a lot of headspace and distractions in code reviews. I don't know about you, but when I did code reviews I'd always end up zooming in on code style issues - ' vs ", things on newlines or no, JS objects with stringed keys, etc.