I'm thinking of creating a cron job that checks out a code repository, runs code formatters on it, and if anything changed, commits the changes and pushes them back.

Most projects that use autoformatters put them in a git hook, but doing it automatically every few hours would remove the burden for each dev to install the git hàook

I would still encourage everyone to write clean, well-formatted code, and maybe I can have the system automatically ping devs when code they wrote gets reformatted, so they know what to do in the future.

I'm thinking of creating a cron job that checks out code, runs code formatters on it, and if anything changed, commits the changes and pushes them back.

Most projects that use autoformatters put them in a git hook, but doing it automatically every few hours would remove the burden for each dev to install the git hook.

I would still encourage everyone to write clean, well-formatted code, and maybe I can have the system automatically ping devs when code they wrote gets reformatted, so they know what to do in the future.