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

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 16, 2016, 14:50 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8B08c5ydNL0e8fvaG7_4UEFqsCR4a0beuvDmYEmPDr78Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <56E96D61.6060007@xiplink.com>

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> wrote:

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> On 16-03-15 09:02 PM, Stefan Beller wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Instead of converting to whitespaces in Git, we could make use of the
>>> set_tabs capability for ttys and setup the terminal for having tabs align
>>> to 12,+8,+8,+8...
>>
>> Or rather read in the existing tabs configuration and shift it by a constant.
>
> Could this also help with diff output, where the leading + or - mars the
> indentation in a similar way?

Yes, please! Even if we only activate this when stdout is tty. Much better output.

> That opens a bit of a deeper problem, because not all the files in a single
> repo necessarily use the same tab size.

Maybe we can pass --tab-width=xx to git?

-- 
Duy