Re: gitk patch collection pull request

Jonathan del Strother writes:

> In my defense, most of that file is space indented, and the places

Only the lines that are indented 1 level start with spaces. Any line that is indented 2 or more levels should start with a tab.

> that are tab indented are generally totally broken unless you have an  
> 8 char tab width.

So set your tabs to 8 spaces when looking at it. :)

> It seems to have the whole 'tabs for code  
> indentation, with space for alignment' rule back-to-front.

I don't recall signing up to that rule. :) I use 4-column indentation and 8-column tabs, and my editor (emacs) handles it all automatically for me.

Paul.