Re: [PATCH] git-p4: replace each tab with 8 spaces for consistency

Andrew Garber [off-list ref] writes:

Note that the majority of git-p4 uses spaces, not tabs, for indentation.
Consistent indentation is critical to the functionality of Python
scripts: mixing tabs and spaces in Python can lead to hard-to-find bugs.

Mixing tabs and spaces can lead to hard-to-find bugs, I agree.

I just threw this in to my .git/info/attributes:

    contrib/fast-import/git-p4 whitespace=!indent,tail,tab-in-indent

and then did this:

    $ >contrib/fast-import/git-p4
    $ git diff -R | git apply --whitespace=fix
    $ git diff

The changes I get out of the last step seem to exactly match your patch.

Thanks.