From: Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:59:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prefer $EMAIL over auto-generated user@hostname.
Message-ID: <20070706155902.GA17489@snarc.org>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0707060859u6a1c3a24p4399a71d84038615@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 05:59:19PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
> On 7/6/07, Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote:
> >
> >Is the recommended tab stop 8 characters as it is for linux? or 4?
> >
> 
> Tab is always 8 spaces. It is indentation which can be 8, 4, 3, 2, and even 
> 1.
> It is 8 in Git.

tab isn't 8 spaces. a tab is a tab.
It's usually *APPEARING* at 8 spaces. they *may* appears as a different
size (to fit anyone preferences), as long as they stay as a tab (not
expanded), and that nobody is aligning on tabs.

=> this way the how many spaces should indentation be has no meaning
   since everybody can choose it on their own terminal/display without
   setting any value across readers of the code.

Cheers,
-- 
Vincent Hanquez