Branch protection rules, yo!

Github has ... shitty automation around policies to enforce for an org. The rules are wonderfully powerful and while well documented for each option, don't give a good view on how to combine them for a nice safe way to work on code.

Humans are bad machines and the human should set the policy instead via automation.

Code formatters are a great case for just having a machine do it vs letting humans fight in PRs. Have a machine format code, make a status check to prevent bad cases getting through, then require the check to pass before merging.

Too much life has been wasted on debating code formatting in PRs.