Introducing an official coding style

[lesquoyb]

tl;dr: Should we define an official coding style for the code base ?

I often see commits where most of the changes are just reformatting code that is sometimes even not related to the goal of the commit itself. I myself do it too sometimes, and I probably already reformatted code that was previously reformatted by someone else, because we all have different coding styles.

So maybe we would clear up the code base of that noise by defining an official coding style for all ?
There are tools for that that could be integrated directly in eclipse to make it easier and more fair. I found this one, but I'm sure there are other alternatives.

Tbh I don't think there's a real need for it currently, but it won't hurt to introduce the idea now for the future. This could come with automated checks on pull requests (that everybody already loves) and with very lose rules for example.