formatting - What is the difference between the 'fix' and the 'format' commands in SQLFluff? - S

It's not clear to me what is the difference between these two commands available in SQLFluff:

fix       Fix SQL files.
format    Autoformat SQL files.

What is the difference between the two commands?

It's not clear to me what is the difference between these two commands available in SQLFluff:

fix       Fix SQL files.
format    Autoformat SQL files.

What is the difference between the two commands?

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• I removed the <sql> tag since this isn't really an ISO/ANSI SQL related question. – jarlh Commented Jan 29 at 18:08

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From the docs:

format

Autoformat SQL files.

This effectively force applies sqlfluff fix with a known subset of fairly stable rules. Enabled rules are ignored, but rule exclusions (via CLI) or config are still respected.

So we see format is a reduced/simplified or less-aggressive version of fix. Though it's also possible the "effectively" weasel word here carries a lot of water.