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If you are in circumstances where the answers to those questions are a resounding "No" then you should just set up the tooling to format the code on save / commit and perhaps to make the CI complain if anyone skips that and leave it at that.

Furthermore, instead of nitpicking over small details, it can actually be a good idea to just leave everything on default, forgo whatever your individual style might be and stick to what's been deemed to be good enough as the default - so the code will look more familiar to anyone who picks it up (and has used the tools you use for linting and formatting). Yes, formatting is different from linting; though if you set up one, you might as well do the other.



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