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From: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Subject: Re: Tabs in commit messages - de-tabify option in
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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:27:45 -0400
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On 16-03-15 09:02 PM, Stefan Beller wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> Instead of converting to whitespaces in Git, we could make use of the
>> set_tabs capability for ttys and setup the terminal for having tabs align
>> to 12,+8,+8,+8...
> 
> Or rather read in the existing tabs configuration and shift it by a constant.

Could this also help with diff output, where the leading + or - mars the
indentation in a similar way?

That opens a bit of a deeper problem, because not all the files in a single
repo necessarily use the same tab size.

		M.