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[PATCH 1/2] howto: Suppress indentation with tabs

From
DWDirk Wallenstein <halsmit@t-online.de>
Date
Jul 31, 2013, 16:54 UTC
Message-ID
<20130731165417.GB11219@bottich>
In-Reply-To
<cover.1375288760.git.halsmit@t-online.de>

The AsciiDoc files in the 'howto' folder are installed as documentation and AsciiDoc files are meant to be read and printed as is. To quote the AsciiDoc Home Page:

    AsciiDoc files are designed to be viewed, edited and printed
    directly or translated to other presentation formats using the
    asciidoc(1) command.

Tabs have the property of a configurable width and can thereby skew the layout of a page and distort the meaning. This is particularly a problem when mixing lines with different indentation (space vs tab) in code examples and ASCII art.

Prevent such a mix-up by prohibiting tab indentation entirely.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Wallenstein <halsmit@t-online.de>
---
 Documentation/howto/.gitattributes | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/howto/.gitattributes
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/.gitattributes b/Documentation/howto/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fecc113
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/howto/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+* whitespace=tab

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Message 11 of 16 in “howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII art”
  1. howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII artDirk Wallenstein, Jul 15, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 15, 2013
  3. Dirk WallensteinJul 16, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 16, 2013
  5. Dirk WallensteinJul 16, 2013
  6. 0/2 Remove tabs from howto documentsDirk Wallenstein, Jul 31, 2013
  7. Fredrik GustafssonJul 31, 2013
  8. Jonathan NiederJul 16, 2013
  9. Dirk WallensteinJul 16, 2013
  10. A Large Angry SCMJul 16, 2013
  11. 1/2 howto: Suppress indentation with tabsDirk Wallenstein, Jul 31, 2013
  12. 2/2 howto: Eliminate all tabsDirk Wallenstein, Jul 31, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2013
  14. Dirk WallensteinJul 31, 2013
  15. Piotr KrukowieckiAug 3, 2013
  16. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2013

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