Re: Get rid of .git/branches/ and .git/remotes/?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Nov 20, 2005, 19:07 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511201103280.13959@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051120182943.GG8383MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:

> 
> Not sure if this falls in the ".ini-file-like" category, but
> YAML (www.yaml.org) does nesting based on indentation.

The main reason I don't like indentation is that it tends to have strange rules for "tab". Some people (incorrectly, of course) think that tabs are not at fixed 8-byte things, so deciding the indentation of a tab often ends up either disallowing tabs altogether (bad) or having other strange rules (disallowing spaces).

So I'm not religiously opposed to it, but I find it to be less than optimal.

I'd rather have just _pure_ braces, but while that is natural to programmers, it's not very natural to most users, I think.

		Linus

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