From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:43:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] whitespace: fix initial-indent checking
Message-ID: <7v3au2l91r.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071216162637.GA3934@fieldses.org>

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:

>>> I prefer to use tabs for indent, but _spaces_ for align. While previous,
>>> less strict version of check catches indent using spaces, this one also
>>> catches _align_ using spaces.
>
> No, the previous version didn't work for the align-with-spaces case
> either.

When indent-with-non-tab is in effect, it should tabify spaces in indent
as much as possible.  The error definition is deliberately incompatible
with "align with spaces" policy.

The reason I made indent-with-non-tab configurable was to cater to these
people.  They can turn it off if they do not want it.