Re: builtin conversion between tabs and spaces

> I find myself really wanting to enforce standards in the use of spaces
> versus tabs. I deal with some unruly programmers who refuse to set
> their editors to use soft tabs, but I *hate* tabs in the repo. And of
> course others feel equally strongly about keeping only tabs in the
> repo (e.g. the git repo).
> 
> This led me to wonder if it wouldn't make sense to have this
> conversion ability built into git. The following patch implements this
> functionality. It still needs work—it's not meant to be final, just to
> give an idea—but I just wanted to see if people on the git list
> thought this sort of thing would be worthwhile at all.