From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 07:05:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Expanding tabs in "git log" output
Message-ID: <56F391A4.6090603@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <1458775426-2215-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>

>  [5/5] adds a new option --no-expand-tabs that controls the bit 4/5
>        introduces, so that "git log [--pretty] --no-expand-tabs"
>        would show the log message indented by 4 spaces, without tab
>        expansion.

Does this introduce an unnecessary regression out of the sudden ?

Would it make sense to have
git log --tab-size=8
(or similar)

and add a config variable like
git config ui.logtabsize
which is 0 by default to get the old handling and 8 for the new one ?