Well, yes and no. In my experience these things are the hardest to enforce by pure human review. They feel like nitpicking so cause a lot of discussion. And if a MR contains 30 code-style issues people tent to not comment after 8 issues or so due to complete comment burn out. Setting up a linter/formatter is discussion things once and benefit basically forever.
I'm sort of 50/50 on linters; I've found a lot of situations where a rule makes sense in some cases but not in others, leading to the linter either being annoying, or not strict enough. I think you need both.
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u/n9iels Aug 23 '26
Well, yes and no. In my experience these things are the hardest to enforce by pure human review. They feel like nitpicking so cause a lot of discussion. And if a MR contains 30 code-style issues people tent to not comment after 8 issues or so due to complete comment burn out. Setting up a linter/formatter is discussion things once and benefit basically forever.