On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:20:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Jari Aalto wrote: > > > * Tue 2007-10-16 Michael Witten <mfwitten AT MIT.EDU> > > > > > > However, 8 spaces per tab is a lot of wasted > > > information to be bandying about. > > > > Spaces are guaranteed to interpreted correctly in all environments. TABs > > are the source of too many problems. > > No. > > Tabs are 8 spaces wide. Live with it. It's the only sane solution. Actually, part of the mess with tabs is due to the fact they're not exactly 8 spaces wide, but any width that ends at a multiple of 8 characters from the start of the line. So 0 <= n < 8 spaces and a tab is still 8 spaces. Anyways, it's maybe just simpler to run indent before sending patches. Mike - 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
