Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:41:06PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> * jc/spht (Tue Oct 2 18:00:27 2007 -0700) 1 commit
>> - git-diff: complain about >=8 consecutive spaces in initial indent
>>
>> This is a counterpart of an earlier patch from J. Bruce Fields
>> to change "git-apply --whitespace" to make SP{8,} at the
>> beginning of line a whitespace error.
>>
>> Personally, I am in favor of the stricter check, but I had to
>> reject the "git-apply" patch because there was no way to disable
>> the additional check without disabling the existing check for
>> trailing whitespaces.  We probably would want to revisit that
>> one (perhaps with a new option and/or config to selectively
>> enable different kinds of whitespace check).
>
> Just to throw in my two cents, I would be strongly opposed to this
> going in without some form of configuration to make it work for
> spaces-only-indent projects.