From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 05:36:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] pretty-print: add --pretty=noexpand Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20160318050807.GC22327@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Jeff King wrote: > > Hmm. Isn't "expand tabs" orthogonal to the rest of the pretty format? > That is, couldn't one want "--pretty=fuller, but with tabs expanded"? Yeah, you are right, one easily could. And in fact I end up doing "fuller" myself occasionally, because I check peoples commit timestamps (some people have a nasty habit of rebasing when they shouldn't). So it's not just the medium format that would want detab by default, it's "full" and "fuller" too (but probably not "raw": that indents the message too, but the only real reason to use "raw" is for scripting). So it would probably be better to make it a separate flag, and not tie it to a particular log format (and just make the log format set the default). Linus