Re: [PATCH v7 04/11] submodule: introduce extensions.submodulePathConfig

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 21, 2025, 03:27 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqy0mwsedz.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20251220101528.1227487-5-adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>

Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com> writes:

This comment is not about the primary contents of this series, but I notice that the whitespace immediately after "errors like" is not a SP but a HT here.

> +* Encounter errors like	`refusing to create ... in another submodule's git dir`

   123456701234567012345670

I have already alluded to it as a #leftoverbit in a different topic, but we probably want to have a new whitespace error class to detect a HT in the middle of a sentence that should have been a SP.

Perhaps the rule would be something like a HT that is at the column that is at (tab-width - 1) modulo tab-width (default 8, but the usual attribute applies), that is surrounded by non-whitespace characters on both sides.

I may be counting off-by-one, though ;-) The quoted problematic line has, labeling the leftmost column as 1, the HT at the 24th column.

 cf. https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq5xa76z0o.fsf@gitster.g/