Re: On Tabs and Spaces

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 17, 2007, 18:05 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710171903340.25221@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710170849590.26902@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Luke Lu wrote:
> 
> > As I mentioned, an all-space policy is trivial to enforce.
> 
> Hell no, it's not.
> 
> More importantly, I can guarantee that certain developers will refuse to 
> be part of such a project with such an idiotic design that eats 
> disk-space for no gain, and makes it impossible for me to use my normal 
> editor.

Yes.  Me, for one.

But heck, _everyone_ is free to fork. That is one of the missions of git: "fork!". You can maintain you tab-less fork, until people flock to you, deciding to use your repo instead of Junio's, or Shawn's. If enough people decide, you will have more followers than the others.

Ciao, Dscho