Re: On Tabs and Spaces

On Wed, October 17, 2007 12:08 pm, David Kastrup said:

All-space indentation renders the binary delta algorithm git uses for
compression of packs slow and partly inoperative (all sequences of 16
spaces share the same finger print, and the number of identical finger
prints for which the file information is kept is reduced to 64).

You seem to have identified a weakness in Git's design rather than
an argument against using all-space indentation.  Personally I find it
counter-productive and annoying to work in space-indented source code.
But let's be honest, this "issue" is mostly about familiarity and
comfort rather than some deep objective truth.

Sean