Re: On Tabs and Spaces

From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Date: Oct 18, 2007, 10:36 UTC
Message-ID: <4pgolnev.fsf@blue.sea.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071018054246.GA9423@glandium.org>

* Thu 2007-10-18 Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> gmane.comp.version-control.git
* Message-Id: 20071018054246.GA9423@glandium.org

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>> Any cross platform development or electronic exchange is guaranteed to
>> be interpreted correctly when policy enforces "only spaces"
>
> There is such problem with spaces. A lot of editors will just insert
> tabs to indent a new line when the previous you were typing begins with
> enough spaces, in which case you end up with spaces and tabs mixed all
> the way. It ends up being worse than all tabs.

There is "all-spaces", but there is no "all-tabs" choice.

The latter will always be mixture of "spaces and tabs". We have no control how the tabs mix with spaces or vice versa: there could even be "eight spaces" + proper tabs.

Speaking generalities (not the git project):

    People can't be controlled, or their settings. Therefore there is a
    policy and QA tools to monitor the issues and make things canonical;
    whatever that is for the project.

Jari

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