From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: On Tabs and Spaces
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:36:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071016193605.GA829@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710161214530.6887@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:20:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Jari Aalto wrote:
>
> > * Tue 2007-10-16 Michael Witten <mfwitten AT MIT.EDU>
> > >
> > > However, 8 spaces per tab is a lot of wasted
> > > information to be bandying about.
> >
> > Spaces are guaranteed to interpreted correctly in all environments. TABs
> > are the source of too many problems.
>
> No.
>
> Tabs are 8 spaces wide. Live with it. It's the only sane solution.
Actually, part of the mess with tabs is due to the fact they're not
exactly 8 spaces wide, but any width that ends at a multiple of 8
characters from the start of the line. So 0 <= n < 8 spaces and a tab
is still 8 spaces.
Anyways, it's maybe just simpler to run indent before sending patches.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-16 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-16 6:45 On Tabs and Spaces Michael Witten
2007-10-16 7:04 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-16 7:27 ` Michael Witten
2007-10-16 17:20 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-16 17:40 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-16 23:09 ` Petr Baudis
2007-10-17 3:41 ` David
2007-10-17 11:32 ` Andy Parkins
2007-10-16 8:30 ` Adam Piatyszek
2007-10-16 9:04 ` Lars Hjemli
2007-10-16 10:16 ` Adam Piatyszek
2007-10-16 15:26 ` Jeffrey C. Ollie
2007-10-16 15:51 ` Michael Witten
2007-10-16 17:06 ` Jari Aalto
2007-10-16 19:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-16 19:36 ` Mike Hommey [this message]
2007-10-16 19:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-16 19:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-16 20:32 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-10-16 20:18 ` Tom Tobin
2007-10-16 23:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-16 23:51 ` Christer Weinigel
2007-10-17 0:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 3:08 ` Michael Witten
2007-10-17 3:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 7:17 ` Luke Lu
2007-10-17 9:09 ` Michael Witten
2007-10-17 10:03 ` Luke Lu
2007-10-17 10:21 ` Nikolai Weibull
2007-10-17 11:23 ` Michael Witten
2007-10-17 22:02 ` Jari Aalto
2007-10-17 22:36 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-17 23:38 ` Jari Aalto
2007-10-18 4:31 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-10-18 8:19 ` Jari Aalto
2007-10-18 11:34 ` Petr Baudis
2007-10-18 11:39 ` Nikolai Weibull
2007-10-22 3:39 ` Miles Bader
2007-10-18 7:15 ` David Kågedal
2007-10-18 5:42 ` Mike Hommey
2007-10-18 10:36 ` Jari Aalto
2007-10-17 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 18:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-17 18:25 ` Tom Tobin
2007-10-17 18:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 19:33 ` Tom Tobin
2007-10-17 19:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 19:48 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-17 19:52 ` Josh England
2007-10-17 19:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 21:21 ` Christer Weinigel
2007-10-17 22:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18 6:25 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-17 22:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-17 23:17 ` Christer Weinigel
2007-10-17 23:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-18 0:31 ` Christer Weinigel
2007-10-18 6:02 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-18 7:12 ` David Kågedal
2007-10-17 23:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 20:31 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-17 21:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-17 19:47 ` Jan Wielemaker
2007-10-18 0:32 ` Jeff King
2007-10-18 0:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18 2:45 ` Jeff King
2007-10-18 3:03 ` david
2007-10-18 3:00 ` Jeff King
2007-10-18 3:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18 4:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18 3:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18 3:23 ` Jeff King
2007-10-18 4:41 ` [PATCH] Add a message explaining that automatic GC is about to start koreth
2007-10-18 4:44 ` Steven Grimm
2007-10-18 5:01 ` Jeff King
2007-10-18 5:11 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-18 13:52 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-10-18 14:16 ` Steven Grimm
2007-10-18 18:08 ` Jeff King
2007-10-19 0:16 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19 1:12 ` [PATCH] git-gc: improve wording of --auto notification Jeff King
2007-10-19 1:24 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-19 1:26 ` Jeff King
2007-10-18 14:21 ` [PATCH] Add a message explaining that automatic GC is about to start Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-18 4:52 ` On Tabs and Spaces Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-18 4:54 ` Jeff King
2007-10-18 4:55 ` Jeff King
2007-10-17 16:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-17 17:44 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-17 19:52 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-17 17:51 ` Sean
2007-10-17 5:56 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-16 20:56 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-18 3:31 ` Paul Wankadia
2007-10-18 4:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18 4:36 ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-10-16 17:23 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-16 18:34 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-10-16 18:51 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-20 13:54 ` Robin Rosenberg
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