US Patent 10423410 Source code rules verification method and system

A computer system processes an authoritative piece of source code to identify one or more formats with which the piece of source code is compliant. A second non-authoritative piece of source code is processed, and the system determines whether in the second non-authoritative piece of source code complies with the one or more formats. In an embodiment, the computer system provides suggestions to make the second non-authoritative piece of source code compliant with the authoritative piece of source code. In an embodiment, the authoritative piece of source code is in a shared source code repository, and the computer system designates the authoritative piece of source code as authoritative based at least in part on the relative age, stability, or authorship of the authoritative source code and other source code in the repository.