Re: [PATCH] git-p4: replace each tab with 8 spaces for consistency

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 7, 2011, 07:36 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhbaafr7r.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1302156081-3286-1-git-send-email-andrew@andrewgarber.com>

Andrew Garber <andrew@andrewgarber.com> writes:

> Note that the majority of git-p4 uses spaces, not tabs, for indentation.
> Consistent indentation is critical to the functionality of Python
> scripts: mixing tabs and spaces in Python can lead to hard-to-find bugs.

Mixing tabs and spaces can lead to hard-to-find bugs, I agree.

I just threw this in to my .git/info/attributes:

    contrib/fast-import/git-p4 whitespace=!indent,tail,tab-in-indent

and then did this:

    $ >contrib/fast-import/git-p4
    $ git diff -R | git apply --whitespace=fix
    $ git diff

The changes I get out of the last step seem to exactly match your patch.

Thanks.

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