Re: On Tabs and Spaces

* Thu 2007-10-18 Mike Hommey [off-list ref] gmane.comp.version-control.git
* Message-Id: 20071018054246.GA9423@glandium.org

quoted

Any cross platform development or electronic exchange is guaranteed to
be interpreted correctly when policy enforces "only spaces"

There is such problem with spaces. A lot of editors will just insert
tabs to indent a new line when the previous you were typing begins with
enough spaces, in which case you end up with spaces and tabs mixed all
the way. It ends up being worse than all tabs.

There is "all-spaces", but there is no "all-tabs" choice.

The latter will always be mixture of "spaces and tabs". We have no
control how the tabs mix with spaces or vice versa: there could even be
"eight spaces" + proper tabs.

Speaking generalities (not the git project):

    People can't be controlled, or their settings. Therefore there is a
    policy and QA tools to monitor the issues and make things canonical;
    whatever that is for the project.

Jari

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