Re: Tabs in commit messages - de-tabify option in strbuf_stripspace()?

[Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Wouldn't it be nicer to do this kind of thing at the output side?  A
>> stupid way would be to have an option to indent the log text with a
>> tab instead of 4-spaces, but a more sensible way would be to keep
>> the visual 4-space-indent and do the expand-tab for each line of
>> text.
>
> Yes, that would certainly work for me too. It's just the "ascii boxes
> don't line up" that is problematic..

I would also rather side to correct the display side rather than the
applying side. [I still want to send and apply patches with git written in
the white space language ;]

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... such that it looks like an indented terminal.
That way we would also preserve the tabs in case you'd want to
copy the message as is.

Thanks,
Stefan

>
> (Also people including example source code etc, where the first tab
> looks wildly different from the second one)
>
>             Linus
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