Re: Tabs in commit messages - de-tabify option in strbuf_stripspace()?

From: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Date: Mar 16, 2016, 14:27 UTC
Message-ID: <56E96D61.6060007@xiplink.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kZtAm1M=9CGDGxPdecXEuNEQcbpQb3FNj9=Py0VE2UrKQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 16-03-15 09:02 PM, Stefan Beller wrote:

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> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> Instead of converting to whitespaces in Git, we could make use of the
>> set_tabs capability for ttys and setup the terminal for having tabs align
>> to 12,+8,+8,+8...
> 
> Or rather read in the existing tabs configuration and shift it by a constant.

Could this also help with diff output, where the leading + or - mars the indentation in a similar way?

That opens a bit of a deeper problem, because not all the files in a single repo necessarily use the same tab size.

M.