From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 00:27:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: fix merge-base ASCII art tab spacing
Message-ID: <xmqqa8dyeebj.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161020234009.1768-1-philipoakley@iee.org>

Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:

> The doc-tool stack does not always respect the 'tab = 8 spaces' rule,
> particularly the git-scm doc pages https://git-scm.com/docs/git-merge-base
> and the Git generated html pages.

Sorry, but I do not understand this change.

https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git-merge-base.html is "Git generated
HTML page" and I do not see any breakage around the drawings this
patch touches, and the fp-path series does not touch these drawings,
either.

If a broken "doc-tool stack" breaks the formatting, I'd prefer to
see that "doc-tool stack" fixed, instead of working around by
updating the source they work on.  Otherwise, the broken "doc-tool
stack" will keep producing broken output next time a source that
respects "tab is to skip to the next multiple of 8" rule is fed to
it, no?