On Sun, 21 Dec 2025, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Adrian Ratiu [off-list ref] writes:

This comment is not about the primary contents of this series, but
I notice that the whitespace immediately after "errors like" is not
a SP but a HT here.

quoted

+* Encounter errors like	`refusing to create ... in another submodule's git dir`

   123456701234567012345670

I have already alluded to it as a #leftoverbit in a different topic,
but we probably want to have a new whitespace error class to detect
a HT in the middle of a sentence that should have been a SP.

Perhaps the rule would be something like a HT that is at the column
that is at (tab-width - 1) modulo tab-width (default 8, but the
usual attribute applies), that is surrounded by non-whitespace
characters on both sides.

I may be counting off-by-one, though ;-) The quoted problematic line
has, labeling the leftmost column as 1, the HT at the 24th column.

 cf. https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq5xa76z0o.fsf@gitster.g/ (local)

I think the algorithm you pointed out is sound, seems to work, so I sent
a separate patch for it:

https://public-inbox.org/git/20251223132756.604036-1-adrian.ratiu@collabora.com/T/#u

Will fix the whitespace in this series on the next re-roll.

Thanks!