The Story of Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2012 is a short story of rolling a massive change at Google.

Basically, they have enforced formatting rules for all the BUILD files for Bazel.

What I like in this story is how this change ended up being uneventful. Which confirms a point: if formatter is integrated into your workflow, you don't care about formatting, you don't even think about it much.

And this is one of the reasons I like Go so much: it has a formatter integrated into the language itself. Same thing with Terraform.

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