Re: On Tabs and Spaces

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Tom Tobin wrote:

But you then dismiss out of hand the option of using all spaces

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