Re: [PATCH] gitweb: add a setting to control the tabstop width

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On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Some people say "Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8
>  characters.  There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4
>  (or even 2!)  characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the
>  value of PI to be 3."  Some people disagree.

And on the web, people use CSS to sort these disagreements amicably...
As a web apps guy, adding a setting for something like this, and then
changing the output feels _very_ weird, as it breaks with a lot of
stuff that Just Works in the HTTP+HTML world even for users that view
it differently... like caching :-)

cheers,



martin
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