From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:39:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] .gitattributes: remove misspelled no-op whitespace attribute
Message-ID: <20251111213910.GB4053071@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqv7jgwgxb.fsf@gitster.g>

On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 10:41:20AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> We could either remove "!indent", or spell it "-indent".  The
> immediate effect would be the same.  It would only start to make a
> difference when/if we enable indent-with-non-tab by default in
> future versions of Git.
> 
> Let's take the former option to remove "!indent" from the list.  We
> would feel the effect first-hand ourselves before anybody else if we
> ever decide to change the built-in default whitespace rules, which
> would be hidden from us if we decide to rewrite it to "-indent"
> instead.

Perfectly explained, and the result makes sense.

I don't know that this patch particularly needed review, but maybe it is
nice for you to know that somebody really is out there reading them. ;)

-Peff