From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:46:23 GMT
Subject: Re: gitk patch collection pull request
Message-ID: <18201.60047.898077.579869@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <531A500E-667F-413C-BD20-D23DC817EB72@steelskies.com>

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.