From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:24:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-apply: complain about >=8 consecutive spaces in initial indent
Message-ID: <7vy7f63zr4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1189982942187-git-send-email-bfields@citi.umich.edu>

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> writes:

> Complain if we find 8 spaces or more in a row as part of the initial
> whitespace on a line, and (with --whitespace=stripspace) replace such by
> a tab.
>
> Well, linux's checkpatch.pl complains about this sort of thing.

Some people program in Python, so I am afraid that this needs to
be a separate option.

Maybe it is time to redo the --whitespace options as bitmasks so
that we can say --whitespace-fix=tab,tail,lines to pick and
choose which kinds of breakage to fix?