Coding standards are useful because they can help ensure that source code is readable. Readable code is useful not only for the current SOFTWARE developers if they need to modify or extend their code at a later date, but also for other developers who wish to modify or extend SOFTWARE. Coding standards are valuable in collaborative projects, such as SOFTWARE, as they recognise that the code belongs to the project as a whole, not any individual developer, and a common look-and-feel to the code helps foster collective ownership and the idea that any developer can work on any part of the code.
If you commit code that does not follow these conventions, you are responsible for also fixing your own code.