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> Why would it cause extra effort?

As I said… because a 1 word change easily ends up changing multiple lines and from the diff it's not clear it's just a 1 word change. So… extra effort.

> Right but you have a pre-push hook to format the code using the same version of Black as is used in CI. Then CI won't ever fail.

No I don't. My release branch and old-release branch use different versions. Such a thing would need to understand which base branch I'm working on, or recreate the venv continuously.

> Cherry pick, then run Black. Sounds like you have a very awkward workflow to be honest.

Seems to me you don't support older versions, in which case everything is easy.