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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: indent-with-non-tab uses "equivalent tabs" not 8

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 17, 2012, 17:23 UTC
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"Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net> writes:
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> From: "Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net>
>
> Update the documentation of the core.whitespace option
> "indent-with-non-tab" to correctly reflect that it catches the use of
> spaces instead of the equivalent tabs, rather than a fixed number.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
> ---
>  Documentation/config.txt |    5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> index 6416cae..11f320b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -559,8 +559,9 @@ core.whitespace::
>  * `space-before-tab` treats a space character that appears immediately
>    before a tab character in the initial indent part of the line as an
>    error (enabled by default).
> -* `indent-with-non-tab` treats a line that is indented with 8 or more
> -  space characters as an error (not enabled by default).
> +* `indent-with-non-tab` treats a line that is indented with space
> +  characters instead of the equivalent tabs as an error (not enabled by
> +  default).
>  * `tab-in-indent` treats a tab character in the initial indent part of
>    the line as an error (not enabled by default).
>  * `blank-at-eof` treats blank lines added at the end of file as an error
Thanks, that reads much better.
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