Re: [PATCH] Add gitattributes file making whitespace checking pickier
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:44:12
Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:
Junio C Hamano wrote:quoted
Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:quoted
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*.py whitespace=!indent,trail,space *.el whitespace=!indent,trail,spaceEmacs Lisp is (like Perl, and contrary to Python) whitespace agnostic,
What does agnostic have anything to do with anything? C is whitespace agnostic and outside obvious places like string constants and #preprocessor directives you can have SP and HT and LF interchangeably. It does not mean you do not need whitespace policy. If gitweb historically used SP everywhere like git.el, I think that is a very good reason to treat it just like *.py and *.el, though. See the updated set of patterns I sent to Daniel just now.
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It also happens that I do not personally believe in "alignment with spaces" argument. If you accept W and a SP occupy the same horizontal space (which "alignment with spaces" assume), I do not think it is unreasonable to accept HT goes to the next column that is multiple of 8 places.My argument is ...
Wasn't my 5 lines enough clue to save you from repeating that? I said I do not agree with it, so please don't even try wasting everybody's time on bikeshedding.