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Re:Prettier 2.0 – Opinionated JavaScript formatter by globular-toast on Monday March 23, 2020 @03:15AM (#22661861)
I ran formatters on a largish codebase over Christmas when all the PRs were done. You just have to pick your moment. If it's really hard then get everyone to agree on a date to do it and make it each developer's responsibility to either merge before or rebase after the change. It can be done.
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Re:Prettier 2.0 – Opinionated JavaScript formatter by random3 on Monday March 23, 2020 @12:07PM (#22665334)
Some team in my old job use to have a term for this - "grabbing the virtual chicken". It was essentially a giant distributed lock :)
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