This article is barely a comment on some other situation; but I've been saying this to anyone who wants listen for years.
There's nothing special about whitespace (unless you write python).
Capitalization and a bunch of other stuff in your coding convention document are usually just signs that you have poor tooling and lack of skill.
Give me a PR that satisfies the requirements and the appropriate test cases and i'll happily rewrite it to spaces only indented with curly braces on newlines and etc... as I see fit.
The hard part is the first two tasks, you can train an intern to do the third
There's nothing special about whitespace (unless you write python).
Capitalization and a bunch of other stuff in your coding convention document are usually just signs that you have poor tooling and lack of skill.
Give me a PR that satisfies the requirements and the appropriate test cases and i'll happily rewrite it to spaces only indented with curly braces on newlines and etc... as I see fit.
The hard part is the first two tasks, you can train an intern to do the third