From: Alex Riesen Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:22:51 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prefer $EMAIL over auto-generated user@hostname. Message-ID: <81b0412b0707060922sf0e3c17wcbd55dd65e1c1e14@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070706155902.GA17489@snarc.org> On 7/6/07, Vincent Hanquez wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 05:59:19PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote: > > On 7/6/07, Brandon Casey 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. > 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.