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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by bornfreddy on Monday February 17, 2025 @01:35PM (#43081927)
Sure. Of course you can't commit to the main branch and your commit will never pass code review (which is a requirement for merging), let alone the automated tests in CI that apply formatting and fail if anything is not formatted as it should be.

These safeguards save so much time that there should be no excuse for not having them.

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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by alexvitkov on Monday February 17, 2025 @10:28PM (#43085795)
Not wanting pipelines to fail because someone put an extra space after the line, or because someone's text editor didn't put a new line at EOF, or put a unicode BOM or whatever is a pretty good reason not to have this "safeguard".
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