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Re: [PATCH] Add gitattributes file making whitespace checking pickier

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 9, 2008, 20:22 UTC
Message-ID
<200802092122.01656.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20080209200435.GA8919@fieldses.org>
J. Bruce Fields wrote:
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> On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:36:31AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > "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?
Ah, sorry, I have misunderstood.
This is an informational piece, then, isn't it?
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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