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Seriously? When you start on a project you configure your IDE to match the project's conventions. If you are in a mentoring role you instruct your jr developers to do the same, first thing, before writing any code. This has never been an issue at any place I ever worked. If a PM can't get their developers to do something as simple as that then you have larger organization problems than code formatted weirdly. As well as totally incompetent developers.

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On a very large codebase, developed over decades, not months or years, by thousands of individual teams, using multiple versions of multiple IDE's, some of which didn't exist when the project started, across different languages, also some of which didn't exist when the project started, this is not so simple.

Unless the project's settings are to use spaces.

I've worked on projects that have been developed over decades and there has never been an issue. We have conventions, developers are expected to follow conventions, and if they don't they are instructed go back and fix their code.

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