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Subject: Re: On Tabs and Spaces
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On Wed, October 17, 2007 12:08 pm, David Kastrup said:

>
> All-space indentation renders the binary delta algorithm git uses for
> compression of packs slow and partly inoperative (all sequences of 16
> spaces share the same finger print, and the number of identical finger
> prints for which the file information is kept is reduced to 64).

You seem to have identified a weakness in Git's design rather than
an argument against using all-space indentation.  Personally I find it
counter-productive and annoying to work in space-indented source code.
But let's be honest, this "issue" is mostly about familiarity and
comfort rather than some deep objective truth.

Sean