From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:29:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Harmful LESS flags
Message-ID: <xmqq8uquv84u.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <87tx9ia5zq.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Traditionally, because the tool grew in a context of being used in a
>> project whose participants are at least not malicious, always having
>> to be on the lookout for fear of middle-of-line tabs hiding bad
>> contents near the right edges of lines has never been an issue.
>
> My beef is not with "hiding bad contents" but with "hiding contents".
> It makes the output useless for seeing what is actually happening as
> soon as the option starts having an effect.

My suspicion is that one of the reasons why S was chosen to be in
the default was to mildly discourage people from busting the usual
line-length limit, but I am not Linus ;-)