diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fc16c75..e457817 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 .cache
 *.swp
+.idea
+*.iml
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 672aaa1..dedc254 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ code style formatter for you on your code!
 
 Usage:
 
-```
+```yaml
 repos:
 - repo: https://github.com/maltzj/google-style-precommit-hook
   sha: b7e9e7fcba4a5aea463e72fe9964c14877bd8130
diff --git a/format-code.sh b/format-code.sh
index da44ba3..b8e6e9d 100755
--- a/format-code.sh
+++ b/format-code.sh
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env sh
+GJF_VERSION=1.8
 mkdir -p .cache
 cd .cache
-if [ ! -f google-java-format-1.7-all-deps.jar ]
+if [ ! -f google-java-format-$GJF_VERSION-all-deps.jar ]
 then
-    curl -LJO "https://github.com/google/google-java-format/releases/download/google-java-format-1.7/google-java-format-1.7-all-deps.jar"
-    chmod 755 google-java-format-1.7-all-deps.jar
+    curl -LJO "https://github.com/google/google-java-format/releases/download/google-java-format-$GJF_VERSION/google-java-format-$GJF_VERSION-all-deps.jar"
 fi
 cd ..
 
 changed_java_files=$(git diff --cached --name-only --diff-filter=ACMR | grep ".*java$" )
 echo $changed_java_files
-java -jar .cache/google-java-format-1.7-all-deps.jar --replace $changed_java_files
+java -jar .cache/google-java-format-$GJF_VERSION-all-deps.jar --replace $changed_java_files