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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
To: Tom Tobin <korpios@...>
Cc: <git@...>
Subject: Re: On Tabs and Spaces
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - 7:05 pm

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Tom Tobin wrote:

I do indeed. I don't think it's sensible. And I did think I already 
answered that issue by talking about how most editors don't even support 
it or show the difference between tabs and spaces.

For example, the editor I use - microemacs - supports tabs just fine. It 
does auto-indentation etc. But it does it with hard-tabs by default, so 
now you have to have some editor-specific setup for that particular 
project if you ever want to do anything else.

And that's really what it boils down to. Everybody support 8-character 
hardtabs (and usually by default). They may support other things *too*, 
but any time you move away from that standard behaviour, you'll most 
likely find something that doesn't support the alternatives.

So yes, the answer really is: "git uses 8-character hard-tabs, live with 
it". 

		Linus
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Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Jari Aalto, (Tue Oct 16, 1:06 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Oct 16, 3:20 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Dmitry Potapov, (Thu Oct 18, 12:36 am)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Sam Ravnborg, (Tue Oct 16, 4:56 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Mike Hommey, (Tue Oct 16, 3:36 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Oct 16, 3:47 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Matthieu Moy, (Tue Oct 16, 4:32 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Oct 16, 3:51 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Tom Tobin, (Tue Oct 16, 4:18 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Oct 16, 7:05 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Christer Weinigel, (Tue Oct 16, 7:51 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Oct 16, 8:45 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Michael Witten, (Tue Oct 16, 11:08 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Oct 16, 11:29 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Luke Lu, (Wed Oct 17, 3:17 am)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Michael Witten, (Wed Oct 17, 5:09 am)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Nikolai Weibull, (Wed Oct 17, 6:21 am)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Michael Witten, (Wed Oct 17, 7:23 am)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Luke Lu, (Wed Oct 17, 6:03 am)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 11:53 am)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Oct 17, 2:05 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Jeff King, (Wed Oct 17, 8:32 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 8:59 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Jeff King, (Wed Oct 17, 10:45 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, , (Wed Oct 17, 11:03 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Jeff King, (Wed Oct 17, 11:00 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 11:32 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Oct 18, 12:17 am)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Nicolas Pitre, (Thu Oct 18, 12:52 am)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Jeff King, (Thu Oct 18, 12:54 am)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Jeff King, (Thu Oct 18, 12:55 am)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 11:13 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Jeff King, (Wed Oct 17, 11:23 pm)
[PATCH] Add a message explaining that automatic GC is about ..., , (Thu Oct 18, 12:41 am)
Re: [PATCH] Add a message explaining that automatic GC is ab..., Brian Gernhardt, (Thu Oct 18, 9:52 am)
Re: [PATCH] Add a message explaining that automatic GC is ab..., Nicolas Pitre, (Thu Oct 18, 10:21 am)
Re: [PATCH] Add a message explaining that automatic GC is ab..., Steven Grimm, (Thu Oct 18, 10:16 am)
Re: [PATCH] Add a message explaining that automatic GC is ab..., Shawn O. Pearce, (Thu Oct 18, 8:16 pm)
[PATCH] git-gc: improve wording of --auto notification, Jeff King, (Thu Oct 18, 9:12 pm)
Re: [PATCH] git-gc: improve wording of --auto notification, Shawn O. Pearce, (Thu Oct 18, 9:24 pm)
Re: [PATCH] git-gc: improve wording of --auto notification, Jeff King, (Thu Oct 18, 9:26 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Add a message explaining that automatic GC is ab..., Jeff King, (Thu Oct 18, 2:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Add a message explaining that automatic GC is ab..., Jeff King, (Thu Oct 18, 1:01 am)
Re: [PATCH] Add a message explaining that automatic GC is ab..., Shawn O. Pearce, (Thu Oct 18, 1:11 am)
Re: [PATCH] Add a message explaining that automatic GC is ab..., Steven Grimm, (Thu Oct 18, 12:44 am)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Tom Tobin, (Wed Oct 17, 2:25 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 2:54 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Jan Wielemaker, (Wed Oct 17, 3:47 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Tom Tobin, (Wed Oct 17, 3:33 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Oct 17, 5:08 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Nicolas Pitre, (Wed Oct 17, 3:48 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 3:53 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Christer Weinigel, (Wed Oct 17, 5:21 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Oct 17, 6:11 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Christer Weinigel, (Wed Oct 17, 7:17 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Oct 17, 7:44 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Christer Weinigel, (Wed Oct 17, 8:31 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Andreas Ericsson, (Thu Oct 18, 2:02 am)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 7:53 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 6:03 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, David Kastrup, (Thu Oct 18, 2:25 am)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 3:44 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, David Kastrup, (Wed Oct 17, 4:31 pm)
Re: On Tabs and Spaces, Josh England, (Wed Oct 17, 3:52 pm)