From: Duy Nguyen Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 14:50:11 GMT Subject: Re: Tabs in commit messages - de-tabify option in strbuf_stripspace()? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <56E96D61.6060007@xiplink.com> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Marc Branchaud wrote: > On 16-03-15 09:02 PM, Stefan Beller wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Stefan Beller 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