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Re: builtin conversion between tabs and spaces

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A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 15, 2008, 23:34 UTC
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Stefan Karpinski wrote:
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> Any further comments? I'm more than willing to implement this, but I
> won't bother if there's no chance of getting it accepted as a patch.
> Does no one else feel like at least having the option to enforce
> whitespace consistency in git is a good thing? If not, I guess I'll
> just muddle along without this feature instead of implementing it.

I'm against including this in except as a sample smudge/clean script. Git is a content tracker; not the enforcement mechanism for individual project policies.

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