Just to add to Ivan's comments; we are maintaining the git history of Dart to be able to keep an eye on their ongoing work in progress.  And, as for the formatting, that was actually one subject we talked about extensively at our last meeting; not just getting the eclipse settings just right, but even using maven codestyle plugins to ensure that such "whitespace / formatting changes" don't create annoying or hard-to-read diffs.

I saw some m2e eclipse settings configurations that we may use to enforce standardized style across the board.