I feel it reduces cognitive load, like proper formatting of code.
Do you enforce consistent code formatting in your codebase (using CI, maybe)? If so, why wouldn’t you do that with commits?
Do you enforce consistent code formatting in your codebase (using CI, maybe)? If so, why wouldn’t you do that with commits?
At this point, the only reason why I like consistent code formatting rules is because they prevent bickering between people who have strong opinions on how things should be. When there's a rule, even if people don't like it, they abide by it. When there are no rules, everybody who thinks that there should be rules starts bikeshedding what they ought to be.
But as far as code quality goes, I don't think it matters much.
I'm pretty much just echoing what others have said, but when I look back at the things that have caused problems / mattered in a codebase, things like formatting are generally ranked an order of magnitude below everything else.
If people care, I'm happy to oblige, but it always seems like a missing the forest for the trees kind of thing.