Re: [Tinycc-devel] Source vandalism

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2015-07-29 08:56:47 -0400, gus knight wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Michael Matz <address@hidden> wrote:
> > P.S: some of the reindendation changes look like as if you've replaced
> > leading tabs with four spaces.  That would have been wrong, tabs are eight
> > spaces.  If this is the case, fix your editor settings.
> 
> In some of the cases, it's obvious that whoever wrote the code was
> using 4 spaces per tab, but in others it's obvious they were using 8.
> It was kind of hard to determine which, and I had to second-guess
> about the surrounding code.

Anyway, tabs are incorrect: with tabs, various tools break
indentation, such as "diff" (thus patches may be difficult
to read) and "git blame".

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