From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:35:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: add a setting to control the tabstop width
Message-ID: <46a038f90803031935s7957a700nb5d3ba09b6575423@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vhcfnfljw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>  Some people say "Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8
>  characters.  There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4
>  (or even 2!)  characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the
>  value of PI to be 3."  Some people disagree.

And on the web, people use CSS to sort these disagreements amicably...
As a web apps guy, adding a setting for something like this, and then
changing the output feels _very_ weird, as it breaks with a lot of
stuff that Just Works in the HTTP+HTML world even for users that view
it differently... like caching :-)

cheers,



martin