Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-apply: complain about >=8 consecutive spaces in initial indent

"J. Bruce Fields" [off-list ref] writes:

Complain if we find 8 spaces or more in a row as part of the initial
whitespace on a line, and (with --whitespace=stripspace) replace such by
a tab.

Well, linux's checkpatch.pl complains about this sort of thing.

Some people program in Python, so I am afraid that this needs to
be a separate option.

Maybe it is time to redo the --whitespace options as bitmasks so
that we can say --whitespace-fix=tab,tail,lines to pick and
choose which kinds of breakage to fix?