David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Traditionally, because the tool grew in a context of being used in a >> project whose participants are at least not malicious, always having >> to be on the lookout for fear of middle-of-line tabs hiding bad >> contents near the right edges of lines has never been an issue. > > My beef is not with "hiding bad contents" but with "hiding contents". > It makes the output useless for seeing what is actually happening as > soon as the option starts having an effect. My suspicion is that one of the reasons why S was chosen to be in the default was to mildly discourage people from busting the usual line-length limit, but I am not Linus ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html