Yeah, OP is not wrong. I also like neatly formatted code and is way easier to read.
I always reformat all my code before all commits. It's just good hygiene.
The funny part is the fussing and the answer they get.
I'd just autoformat the area of my patch and send in the patch that way, maybe plus some autoformatted blocks here and there, slowly fixing the stuff as I go.
If something is too bothersome, first try doing something, and figure out the rest of the process as you go.
Edit: blocks became blogs without my knowledge. Maybe I should write a blog post about it. Don't know.
Us old folks remember the days when reformatting was a computationally expensive action that required a special program to “pretty print” the code. And heaven forbid your code used some language feature your pretty printer didn’t understand and mangled the output making your code uncompilable.
Well, I'm not that of a young folk. I was playing with computers (programming, in fact) in the early 90s, and I remember when it was expensive.
However, Eclipse is formatting C++ code with a simple hotkey and without breaking it and understanding the language for the last 15 years as far as I can remember. It's instant, too.
Because of that I feel a bit surprised when younger people look it like it's black magic. It's neither new, nor unsolved in my conscious experience.
