I'll allow you to check in a test file with tabs.

On 2006-06-20, at 11:34 EDT, Jim Grandy wrote:

> Any comments on my testing point? What happens if we find a parser/ 
> compiler bug triggered by hard tabs? Do we document that a legal  
> LZX file may not have hard tabs in it?
>
> On Jun 20, 2006, at 6:05 AM, P T Withington wrote:
>
>> Maybe we should have a poll?
>>
>> I vote for a pre-commit trigger that prevents tabs, for the  
>> reasons I stated.
>>
>> On 2006-06-19, at 23:58 EDT, Jim Grandy wrote:
>>
>>> Bad form I understand. Seems like a weak justification for  
>>> causing a build break, though -- especially since this was an LZX  
>>> file and application developers won't in general keep tabs out of  
>>> their source files. Are we doing ourselves a service by only  
>>> building and testing against tab-free source files?
>>>
>>> On Jun 19, 2006, at 5:45 PM, P T Withington wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's considered bad form to have 'non-canonical' whitespace in  
>>>> your repository.  It creates diffs where there are none.  So,  
>>>> basically, for the same reason we don't want DOS line endings in  
>>>> the repository.
>>>>
>>>> If I ran the zoo, I would complain about non-empty blank lines  
>>>> and whitespace at the end of lines too.
>>>>
>>>> Most editors have an auto-expand-tabs mode, so this should not  
>>>> be hard to obey.  Some editors even flag stray whitespace.
>>>>
>>>> On 2006-06-19, at 19:25 EDT, Jim Grandy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We either need a pre-commit hook to check for hard tabs, or we  
>>>>> need to remove this requirement. Why is it in place, again?
>>>>>
>>>>>>      [exec] There are hard tabs in ./lps-3.3.x/lps/components/ 
>>>>>> incubator/lwzCalendar/lwzEncalendar.lzx
>>>>>
>>>>> jim
>>>>>
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