On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:41:31PM +0000, Brian Downing wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:41:06PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > * jc/spht (Tue Oct 2 18:00:27 2007 -0700) 1 commit
> >  - git-diff: complain about >=8 consecutive spaces in initial indent
> > 
> > This is a counterpart of an earlier patch from J. Bruce Fields
> > to change "git-apply --whitespace" to make SP{8,} at the
> > beginning of line a whitespace error.
> > 
> > Personally, I am in favor of the stricter check, but I had to
> > reject the "git-apply" patch because there was no way to disable
> > the additional check without disabling the existing check for
> > trailing whitespaces.  We probably would want to revisit that
> > one (perhaps with a new option and/or config to selectively
> > enable different kinds of whitespace check).

> I don't want to get into another stupid holy war about the superiority
> of indent styles (the last one was quite enough, thank you), but there
> are real projects out there that have a spaces-only-indent policy and
> use Git, and this change as is isn't good for them.

  Seconded.

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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