Re: [PATCH] Add gitattributes file making whitespace checking pickier

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>>> *.py whitespace=!indent,trail,space
>>>> *.el whitespace=!indent,trail,space
>
> Emacs 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.

>> 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.