So I end up doing this manually when I notice, but I was wondering ig
maybe git could just have an option to "git am" and friends to
de-tabify the commit message.
It's particularly noticeable when people line things up using tabs
(for the kernel, it's often things like "cpu1 does X, cpu2 does Y"),
and then when you do "git log" it looks like a unholy mess, because
the 4-char indentation of the log message ends up causing those things
to not line up at all after all.
The natural thing to do would be to pass in a "tab size" parameter to
strbuf_stripspace(), and default it to 0 (for no change), but have
some way to let people say "expand tabs to spaces at 8-character
tab-stops" or similar (but let people use different tab-stops if they
want).
Do people hate that idea? I may not get around to it for a while (it's
the kernel merge window right now), but I can write the patch
eventually - I just wanted to do an RFC first.
Linus
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