From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:31:00 GMT
Subject: Re: core.whitespace space-in-indent feature request
Message-ID: <7vwrm2j6nv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1295380297.3778.47.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>

Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu> writes:

> On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 13:40 +0100, Victor Engmark wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I couldn't find this mentioned anywhere, but it would be useful for
>> languages where you typically want only tab characters in indentation,
>> like makefiles. Would be equivalent or similar to indent-with-non-tab
>> and tabwidth=1.
>
> Victor,
> What would the point of this be? Git doesn't change the layout of the
> code when storing it--that's up to the thing between the chair and the
> keyboard.

True, but I think Victor wants to be able to ask "diff --check" to
complain and diff --color to highlight when it sees a line that begins
with a SP (or a HT then SP) by setting:

	* whitespace=space-in-indent

or something in the attributes file.

As "equivalence" exists, not very much interested in coding it myself,
though ;-)