When developers collaborate on a software project, the style of the code should be consistent across the codebase. However, as developers do not always concur on code style practices, achieving a consensus can be burdensome. Even when code style guidelines are defined for a project, developers often have difficulties adhering to them. Additionally, when working on several projects with diverse guidelines, following different styles can become a frustrating, error-prone, and time-consuming task for a developer. This work presents experiences from adopting two development workflow patterns that automatically ensure that code’s layout and formatting are consistent in a project’s repository while enabling each developer to utilize their preferences locally. From our experience, using any of these two patterns provides a successful way for collaborative software development that allows developers to relocate their time and concerns from code formatting to more valuable matters.