Description Moritz Eysholdt 2013-01-10 08:52:57 EST

A common problem with formatting is (when not everybody in the team uses the formatter in exactly the same way), that formatting a complete file will add  unnecessary and confusing changes to your next commit.

Let's play around with the idea that the formatter may only modify lines that already have been edited by the developer. In other words - the formatter may not format lines that would enlarge the next commit.

This would require (optional) integration with VCSs, e.g. EGit.

Maybe even an action such as "format staged changes" would be useful.