From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:48:31 GMT
Subject: Re: On Tabs and Spaces
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710171542530.19446@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <1192649598.6640.44.camel@athena>

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Tom Tobin wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 11:54 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > In contrast, your argument seems to be "I've not actually done anything, 
> > but I want to paint the bikeshed pink".
> 
> Because, once again, being new makes one incorrect, doesn't it?
> 
> You've essentially demonstrated that git's "benevolent" dictator is an
> asshole, and even worse, an irrational asshole.  It's one thing to deal
> with a community member like that; when it's the BD, I think I'll move
> along elsewhere.  Congratulations.

If you can't overcome your dislike for tabs and accept that this is the 
coding style for the Git project then please go away.

Can this discussion, rational or not, just stop now?


Nicolas