Re: On Tabs and Spaces

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Tom Tobin wrote:

I do indeed. I don't think it's sensible. And I did think I already answered that issue by talking about how most editors don't even support it or show the difference between tabs and spaces.

For example, the editor I use - microemacs - supports tabs just fine. It does auto-indentation etc. But it does it with hard-tabs by default, so now you have to have some editor-specific setup for that particular project if you ever want to do anything else.

And that's really what it boils down to. Everybody support 8-character hardtabs (and usually by default). They may support other things *too*, but any time you move away from that standard behaviour, you'll most likely find something that doesn't support the alternatives.

So yes, the answer really is: "git uses 8-character hard-tabs, live with it".

		Linus