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Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2011
Laurent Le Brun's blog
Though I hadn't worked with them, I knew them by reputation: Russ Cox because I enjoyed reading his blog posts, and Rob Pike because, well… he’s famous. During the meeting, Rob and Russ shared their ambitious plan: to reformat every single Bazel BUILD file in Google’s codebase and enforce this formatting with a presubmit script. With around 10,000 engineers changing BUILD files every day in the codebase, enforcing a strict formatting rule seemed scary.
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