[Aptitude-devel] Tabs vs spaces

Daniel Burrows dburrows at debian.org
Tue Jul 20 16:22:52 UTC 2010


  Piotr, do you think you could switch your editor to produce spaces
instead of tabs?  Your latest patch changes a bunch of lines with no
effect except to replace spaces with tabs.  I'd rather avoid tabs
because they tend to be rendered inconsistently by different editors.

  I'm going to merge the patch anyway.  My current philosophy about
whitespace changes and diffs is that your diff tool should be smart
enough to ignore them if you ask it to.  Conveniently, git is (-b).
So, yay.

  Daniel



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