On Monday, September 17, 2012 00:03:29 Junio C Hamano wrote: > An alternative would be to lose the "8" (or `tabwidth`) from that > description. I've always thought that the description of `tabwidth` > is clear enough that "8" in the patch is not a hardcoded non-overridable > value but is merely a default, but after reading that section a few > more times, I no longer think that is the case. > > I originally wrote "8 or more space" but that wasn't because I > thought it was important to stress "8 is the default", but because I > didn't think of a better way to say what I wanted to say, which was > "if you are filling the indentation with spaces when you could have > just typed a tab with a few spaces, this error triggers", in other > words "use of this is to encourage indenting with tabs".
Okay, I'm going to generated a new patch that hopefully reads better! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
