From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:36:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add gitattributes file making whitespace checking pickier
Message-ID: <m3abm9hqix.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20080209190533.GD25533@fieldses.org>

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:

>  gitweb/gitweb.perl                                  |  566 ++--
>  index-pack.c                                        |   30 

gitweb (at my insistence) uses tabs for indent, but spaces for align,
so that the layout is [roughly] preserved independently of the tab
size. IMHO it is superior style, but much harder to check
algorithmically (although I send some sketch of idea how to check that
at least for aligned commands). That is why there is such a big change.

I'd rather have real bugfixes, real documentation improvements, new
features instead of such bikeshedding.  If someone is making a change
somewhere, he/she can fix the whitespace in the neighbourhood.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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