# [PATCH] t0040: declare non-tab indentation to be okay in this script

2 messages from 2023-08-08 to 2023-08-08. Participants: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Taylor Blau.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/60083

## Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, 2023-08-08 10:37

Subject: [PATCH] t0040: declare non-tab indentation to be okay in this script
Message-ID: <pull.1568.git.1691491054706.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/pull.1568.git.1691491054706.gitgitgadget%40gmail.com

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From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

By necessity, this script needs to verify that certain Git output
matches expectations, including text indented with spaces instead of
tabs.

Most recently, such a check was introduced in 448abbba6347 (short help:
allow multi-line opthelp, 2023-07-18) which is reported by `git diff
--check 448abbba6347^!` as having whitespace issues.

Let's not complain about this because it is intentional.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
    t0040: declare non-tab indentation to be okay in this script
    
    When preparing Git for Windows v2.42.0-rc0, I ran into this issue: the
    Pull Request's check-whitespace run failed. Let's prevent having future
    contributors from also running into this type of issue when modifying
    t0040.

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1568%2Fdscho%2Fsuppress-t0040-whitespace-error-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1568/dscho/suppress-t0040-whitespace-error-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1568

 t/.gitattributes | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/t/.gitattributes b/t/.gitattributes
index 9930e283512..b9cea1795d8 100644
--- a/t/.gitattributes
+++ b/t/.gitattributes
@@ -22,3 +22,4 @@ t[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/* -whitespace
 /t7500/* eol=lf
 /t8005/*.txt eol=lf
 /t9*/*.dump eol=lf
+/t0040*.sh whitespace=-indent-with-non-tab

base-commit: 448abbba63471153df6ba520a5621595557ce3c8
-- 
gitgitgadget

```

## Taylor Blau, 2023-08-08 20:19

Subject: Re: [PATCH] t0040: declare non-tab indentation to be okay in this script
Message-ID: <ZNKjTfhOUpnxrw/L@nand.local>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/ZNKjTfhOUpnxrw%2FL%40nand.local
In-Reply-To: <pull.1568.git.1691491054706.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

```
On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 10:37:34AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
> ---
>     t0040: declare non-tab indentation to be okay in this script
>
>     When preparing Git for Windows v2.42.0-rc0, I ran into this issue: the
>     Pull Request's check-whitespace run failed. Let's prevent having future
>     contributors from also running into this type of issue when modifying
>     t0040.

Thanks for hardening these up. This looks obviously correct to me!

Thanks,
Taylor

```
