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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make the tab width used for whitespace checks configurable
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:16:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101129171629.GM8037@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CF366B1.8070400@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> ---
>  I have a project that uses tab width 4, and which has a lot of whitespace
>  errors. This is very helpful to spot them when lines are changed that
>  are indented with 4 spaces.

Thanks.

For what it's worth, I like the idea and the patch looks good.
(I haven't checked for missed spots or read the test in detail,
though.)

> +                       if (0 < tabwidth && tabwidth < 0100)
> +                               rule &= ~WS_TAB_WIDTH_MASK, rule |= tabwidth;

Tab widths are recognized with atoi and out-of-range tab widths are
silently ignored.  Could we help the user spot typos somehow?

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-29 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-29  8:39 [PATCH] Make the tab width used for whitespace checks configurable Johannes Sixt
2010-11-29 17:16 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-11-30  1:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-11-30  8:22   ` [PATCH 1/2 maint] apply --whitespace=fix: fix tab-in-indent Johannes Sixt
2010-11-30  8:29     ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] Make the tab width used for whitespace checks configurable Johannes Sixt
2010-11-30 23:19     ` [PATCH 1/2 maint] apply --whitespace=fix: fix tab-in-indent Chris Webb

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