From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:38:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Rebase & Trailing Whitespace
Message-ID: <20110909193842.GA31109@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110903201832.GB8362@ecki>

On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 10:18:32PM +0200, Clemens Buchacher wrote:

> I am looking at the output of:
> 
>  git diff --check 4b825 -- $(git ls-files '*.[ch]'|grep -v ^compat)
> 
> Most of those are false positives from multiline function argument
> lists, which are aligned with the first line. So the above command
> would break more than it would fix.
> 
> I don't care either way, but for future reference: Do we or do we
> not want indentation with spaces in this case?

I thought our policy was that a tab is 8 spaces, and that indentations
of size N should be floor(N/8) tabs and (N%8) spaces. I know other
projects disagree (e.g., they want tabs for structural indentation and
spaces for all other alignment), but that seems to be the general use in
git.

-Peff