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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation•org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Tabs in commit messages - de-tabify option in strbuf_stripspace()?
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:45:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4mc76yji.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzHMp4hiCp7+2Yxy=KNQ_rBru3RM-pghXUPtoxr_L+w2w@mail.gmail.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:16:57 -0700")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation•org> writes:

> 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.

Wouldn't it be nicer to do this kind of thing at the output side?  A
stupid way would be to have an option to indent the log text with a
tab instead of 4-spaces, but a more sensible way would be to keep
the visual 4-space-indent and do the expand-tab for each line of
text.

That way, your viewing of existing commits that use 8-space HT to
align (and worse yet, mixture of 8-space HT and 8 spaces and assume
the end result would align in the output) would become more pleasant
without you having to run filter-branch ;-)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-16  0:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-16  0:16 Tabs in commit messages - de-tabify option in strbuf_stripspace()? Linus Torvalds
2016-03-16  0:23 ` Stefan Beller
2016-03-16  0:45   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-16  0:34 ` Randall S. Becker
2016-03-16  0:45 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-03-16  0:48   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-16  1:00     ` Stefan Beller
2016-03-16  1:02       ` Stefan Beller
2016-03-16 14:27         ` Marc Branchaud
2016-03-16 14:50           ` Duy Nguyen
2016-03-16 16:15           ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-16 16:47             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-20 13:29           ` Matthieu Moy
2016-03-16  4:05     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-16  4:46       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-16  4:57         ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-16  5:17           ` Jeff King

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