From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: On Tabs and Spaces Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:05:21 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <634393B0-734A-4884-93E3-42F7D3CB157F@mit.edu> <471476B7.5050105@users.sourceforge.net> <8c5c35580710160204s5a4f9fb3j68c0a86c4d080cb7@mail.gmail.com> <47148F72.1090602@users.sourceforge.net> <1192548367.3821.4.camel@lt21223.campus.dmacc.edu> <3awb7zw6.fsf@blue.sea.net> <1192565900.6430.16.camel@athena> <20071017015109.303760cc@localhost.localdomain> <3A9408D5-2667-43A6-A0CE-C0720B3A3987@vicaya.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Luke Lu , Christer Weinigel , Tom Tobin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 17 20:06:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IiDHD-00039A-2F for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:05:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756516AbXJQSFj (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:05:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755943AbXJQSFj (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:05:39 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:51479 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753464AbXJQSFi (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:05:38 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2007 18:05:36 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO openvpn-client) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp031) with SMTP; 17 Oct 2007 20:05:36 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/yes1ijzfy1qGooBYV8JDrYnlemALR8LoG0GAXbo ZXJzmsGuM3Ve+N X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Luke Lu wrote: > > > As I mentioned, an all-space policy is trivial to enforce. > > Hell no, it's not. > > More importantly, I can guarantee that certain developers will refuse to > be part of such a project with such an idiotic design that eats > disk-space for no gain, and makes it impossible for me to use my normal > editor. Yes. Me, for one. But heck, _everyone_ is free to fork. That is one of the missions of git: "fork!". You can maintain you tab-less fork, until people flock to you, deciding to use your repo instead of Junio's, or Shawn's. If enough people decide, you will have more followers than the others. Ciao, Dscho