Re: [PATCH] Prefer $EMAIL over auto-generated user@hostname.

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 6, 2007, 16:22 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0707060922sf0e3c17wcbd55dd65e1c1e14@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070706155902.GA17489@snarc.org>

On 7/6/07, Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 05:59:19PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
> > On 7/6/07, Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote:
> > >
> > >Is the recommended tab stop 8 characters as it is for linux? or 4?
> > >
> >
> > Tab is always 8 spaces. It is indentation which can be 8, 4, 3, 2, and even
> > 1.
> > It is 8 in Git.
>
> tab isn't 8 spaces. a tab is a tab.

Of course. It is used to indent the text to the next position which multiple of 8.

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> It's usually *APPEARING* at 8 spaces. they *may* appears as a different
> size (to fit anyone preferences), as long as they stay as a tab (not
> expanded), and that nobody is aligning on tabs.
>
> => this way the how many spaces should indentation be has no meaning
>    since everybody can choose it on their own terminal/display without
>    setting any value across readers of the code.

The symbol in question, HT, is used to indent source in the project Git.