Re: On Tabs and Spaces

["Josh England" <jjengla@sandia.gov>]

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 14:33 -0500, Tom Tobin wrote:
> That disk space translates into memory usage exactly *how*?  Compiled
> code?  Or the in-memory text while you're editing?  The former can't be
> the issue, and the latter is trivial.

Think compression.  Worse yet in my opinion is the bandwidth spike that
the larger tarball would create.  Estimates earlier in the thread put
the difference at upwards of 40MB.  Disk space may be cheap, but highly
available redundant mirrored disk space is not, and neither is
bandwidth.

> And, of course, this still comes up against the *benefits* of
> all-spaces.  Benefits which have been mentioned by several people;
> benefits which you refuse to *acknowledge*, even if they don't sway you.

I think what Linus is trying to say here is this:  THE "BENEFITS" DO
*NOT* OUTWEIGH THE DRAWBACKS.  Accept it and move on.

> You've essentially demonstrated that git's "benevolent" dictator is an
> asshole, and even worse, an irrational asshole.  It's one thing to deal
> with a community member like that; when it's the BD, I think I'll move
> along elsewhere.  Congratulations.

Lovely.  Personal attacks are such an effective way to get your point
across.  You, sir, are a tool.  Good riddance.

-JE