From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:17:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] pretty: expand tabs in indented logs to make things line up properly
Message-ID: <CAPig+cTd_VRnikMzN7b2qfeG87M0v-4_qM42MkhOcRT54Wmv=Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1459293309-25195-2-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>
> A commit log message sometimes tries to line things up using tabs,
> assuming fixed-width font with the standard 8-place tab settings.
> Viewing such a commit however does not work well in "git log", as
> we indent the lines by prefixing 4 spaces in front of them.
> [...]
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
> @@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ people using 80-column terminals.
> +--expand-tabs::
> +       Perform a tab expansion (replace each tab with enough number
> +       of spaces to fill to the next display column that is

Nit: "enough spaces" or "a sufficient number of spaces".

> +       multiple of 8) in the log message before using the message
> +       to show in the output.