Re: [Nano-devel] on the topic of style (indentation)

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Sun, Apr 6, 2014, at 11:54, Chris Allegretta wrote:
> Either using just tabs or N spaces are fine (I write as much python as C
> nowadays), with the obvious caveat that after reindenting everything we'll
> lose the ability to track 99% of changes which came up using svn blame,
> which goes back more than a decade.
> 
> If we were to do this though, we could solve 2 issues at the same time and
> simultaneously switch to git sans history conversion, since the history
> would be substantially less useful at that point anyway,

But both git and svn can do diffs with --ignore-space-change (-b)
or --ignore-all-space (-w).  Very useful.

So, I wouldn't discard the history, if it's at all possible to keep it.

Benno

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