git.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>,
	Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com>,
	Git Users <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Rebase & Trailing Whitespace
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 15:38:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110909193842.GA31109@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110903201832.GB8362@ecki>

On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 10:18:32PM +0200, Clemens Buchacher wrote:

> I am looking at the output of:
> 
>  git diff --check 4b825 -- $(git ls-files '*.[ch]'|grep -v ^compat)
> 
> Most of those are false positives from multiline function argument
> lists, which are aligned with the first line. So the above command
> would break more than it would fix.
> 
> I don't care either way, but for future reference: Do we or do we
> not want indentation with spaces in this case?

I thought our policy was that a tab is 8 spaces, and that indentations
of size N should be floor(N/8) tabs and (N%8) spaces. I know other
projects disagree (e.g., they want tabs for structural indentation and
spaces for all other alignment), but that seems to be the general use in
git.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-09 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-31 23:55 Rebase & Trailing Whitespace Hilco Wijbenga
2011-09-01  2:31 ` Jeff King
2011-09-01 21:00   ` Philip Oakley
2011-09-01 21:26     ` Jeff King
2011-09-02  7:32       ` Michael J Gruber
2011-09-02  8:28         ` Jeff King
2011-09-03 20:18           ` Clemens Buchacher
2011-09-09 19:38             ` Jeff King [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20110909193842.GA31109@sigill.intra.peff.net \
    --to=peff@peff.net \
    --cc=drizzd@aon.at \
    --cc=git@drmicha.warpmail.net \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com \
    --cc=philipoakley@iee.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).