From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:05:34 GMT Subject: Re: On Tabs and Spaces Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1192565900.6430.16.camel@athena> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Tom Tobin wrote: > > But you then dismiss out of hand the option of using all spaces 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