Re: [PATCH] Add gitattributes file making whitespace checking pickier
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:36:31AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
>
> > gitweb/gitweb.perl | 566 ++--
> > index-pack.c | 30
>
> gitweb (at my insistence) uses tabs for indent, but spaces for align,
> so that the layout is [roughly] preserved independently of the tab
> size. IMHO it is superior style, but much harder to check
> algorithmically (although I send some sketch of idea how to check that
> at least for aligned commands). That is why there is such a big change.
>
> I'd rather have real bugfixes, real documentation improvements, new
> features instead of such bikeshedding. If someone is making a change
> somewhere, he/she can fix the whitespace in the neighbourhood.
I agree completely. Did I suggest otherwise?
--b.