Re: Tabs in commit messages - de-tabify option in strbuf_stripspace()?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mar 16, 2016, 16:15 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+55aFwFsBKZZeqhBDf_YXG6vrSrvfFVCsRc0mkFUiDS9Rd+QA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <56E96D61.6060007@xiplink.com>

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> wrote:

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> Could this also help with diff output, where the leading + or - mars the
> indentation in a similar way?

I don't think that's a good idea at least by default, since then it will break things like running diff in emacs capture mode.

So even if you're in a terminal, you can't assume that you can munge the output too much.

Of course, if colorization is on, you might as well pretty-print the diff by indenting things properly too, since the end result isn't going to be used as a _diff_.

              Linus